How Heidegger criticizes and "locates" science, and some problems with what he is trying to do.

A comparison of the ways in which Hegel and Heidegger critique modernity.

In this book Berry provides a useful summary and comparison of the positions of Hegel and Hume on human nature and its relation to social diversity. After a general introduction, Berry discusses the Enlightenment, Herder’s reaction, Kant, then Hume and Hegel. Most of the comparisons of the latter two are made during the treatment of Hegel. For each thinker Berry asks about the unity of human nature and its relation to social diversity: What is the kind of unity involved, what (...) causes historical and social differences, and is history crucial to a study of human nature? Along the way various topics such as language and property are studied for their bearing on the more basic issues. Berry discusses the intellectual milieu of his two thinkers with respect to his themes; this provides useful background on the Enlightenment and Romantic conceptions, especially in Berry’s discussion of Herder’s reaction to the Enlightenment theories of an ahistorical human nature. (shrink)

These lectures of Heidegger on Hegel’s Phenomenology were given in the winter semester 1930–1931 in Freiburg. This was only a few years after the publication of Being and Time and Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics; much of the language harks back to those works. The lectures predate by twelve years the essay “Hegel’s Concept of Experience” and by about twenty-seven years the discussions of Hegel in Identity and Difference and “Hegel and the Greeks.” As is the case with Heidegger’s (...) course lectures, these are easier reading than the essays and books. It would be unfortunate, however, if their greater length and comparative clarity were to give them a special prominence among Heidegger’s views on Hegel, since the later treatments are more sophisticated. (shrink)