Understanding Hegelianism

by Sinnerbrink,Robert

• ISBN13: 9781844650941
• ISBN10: 1844650944
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2014-08-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Understanding Hegelianism is a lucid introduction to one of the richest movements in modern thought. It explores the ways in which Hegelian and anti-Hegelian currents of thought have shaped some of the most significant movements in twentieth-century European philosophy, particularly the traditions of critical theory, existentialism, Marxism and poststructuralism.

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: Hegel and the Enlightenment	p. 1
The adventures of Hegelianism	p. 13
Introducing Hegelian idealism	p. 15
Adventures in Hegelianism	p. 39
German Hegelianism	p. 59
Reification and metaphysics: Lukacs and Heidegger	p. 61
Enlightenment, domination and non-identity: Adorno's negative dialectics	p. 83
Modernity, intersubjectivity and recognition: Habermas and Honneth	p. 101
French Hegelianism	p. 123
French Hegelianism and its discontents: Wahl, Hyppolite, Kojeve	p. 125
Between existentialism and Marxism: Sartre, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty	p. 147
Deconstructing Hegelianism: Deleuze, Derrida and the question of difference	p. 171
Conclusion: the future of Hegelianism	p. 201
Questions for discussion and revision	p. 207
Further reading	p. 211
References	p. 217
Index	p. 221
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