Hegel and the Tradition

by Harris, H. S.; Russon, John Edward; Baur, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780802009272
• ISBN10: 0802009271
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) is considered a philosopher of the Tradition, both in the sense that his work is rooted in the political, artistic, religious, and philosophical traditions of European culture and in the sense that he takes up the notion of tradition as an object of philosophical investigation. This collection examines Hegel's philosophy as it bears on the meaning and relevance of tradition - historical, legal, aesthetic, religious, and philosophical. The thirteen original essays draw upon and celebrate the work of H.S. Harris, who is considered by many to be the most influential interpreter of Hegel in the English-speaking world. The collection as a whole examines Hegel's rich and nuanced relation to his own traditions, including his creative reworking of the legacies of Greece, Rome, Christianity, the Middle Ages, early modernity, and his immediate predecessors. It also shows how Hegel's thought has direct relevance for us today as we seek to understand ourselves in relation to our inherited traditions. The volume concludes with an afterword by H.S. Harris and a comprehensive bibliography of Harris's published works. This important anthology represents the first rigorous and systematic effort to apply Harris's seminal and innovative style of Hegel scholarship to a wide variety of philosophical and historical issues. It functions both as a study of Hegel's philosophy and as a commentary on Harris's vast contribution to Hegel scholarship.

Author Biography

MICHAEL BAUR is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America. JOHN RUSSON is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(2)
Foreword: Hume, Hegel, and Harris	ix
JOHN W. BURBIDGE
Introduction: Hegel and Tradition	3	(14)
JOHN RUSSON
Part One: Philosophy of Right	17	(60)
1 Philosophical History and the Roman Empire	17	(23)
PATRICIA FAGAN
2 Locke, Fichte, and Hegel on the Right to Property	40	(37)
JAY LAMPERT
Part Two: Art	77	(66)
3 Hegel and Hamann: Ideas and Life	77	(16)
JOHN McCUMBER
4 Winckelmann and Hegel on the Imitation of the Greeks	93	(18)
MICHAEL BAUR
5 Hegel as Philosopher of the Temporal [irdischen] World: On the Dialectics of Narrative	111	(32)
MARTIN DONOUGHO
Part Three: Religion	143	(102)
6 The Identity of the Human and the Divine in the Logic of Speculative Philosophy	143	(19)
JEFF MITSCHERLING
7 The Final Name of God	162	(14)
DAVID KOLB
8 Hegel's Open Future	176	(14)
JOHN W. BURBIDGE
9 Hegel's Encounter with the Christian Tradition, or How Theological Are Hegel's Early Theological Writings?	190	(22)
NICHOLAS WALKER
10 'Wie aus der Pistole': Fries and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge	212	(33)
GEORGE DI GIOVANNI
Part Four: Philosophy	245	(66)
11 Der Unterschied zwischen `Differenz' und 'Unterschied': A Re-evaluation of Hegel's Differenzschrift	245	(19)
SUSAN-JUDITH HOFFMANN
12 Dialectic as Counterpoint: On Philosophical Self-Measure in Plato and Hegel	264	(22)
JAMES CROOKS
13 Hegel's `Freedom of Self-Consciousness' and Early Modern Epistemology	286	(25)
JOHN RUSSON
Afterword: Theme and Variations: The Round of Life and the Chorale of Thought	311	(14)
H.S. HARRIS
Hegel's Works	325	(4)
Publications of H.S. Harris	329	(18)
JAMES DEVIN
Contributors	347