A Companion to Hegel

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Stephen Houlgate, Michael Baur
John Wiley & Sons, Dec 21, 2015 - Philosophy - 672 pages
This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays that cover the whole range of Hegel’s mature thought and his lasting influence.
  • A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophers
  • Essays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most up-to-date Hegel research
  • Contributions are drawn from across the world and from a wide variety of philosophical approaches and traditions
  • Examines Hegel’s influence on a range of thinkers, from Kierkegaard and Marx to Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida
  • Begins with a chronology of Hegel’s life and work and is then split into sections covering topics such as Philosophy of Nature, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Religion
 

Contents

Early Writings
21
Phenomenology of Spirit
45
SelfConsciousness AntiCartesianism and Cognitive Semantics
68
Spirit as the Unconditioned Terry Pinkard
91
Logic
109
Essence Reflexion and Immediacy in Hegels Science of Logic
139
Conceiving
159
Philosophy of Nature
175
Aesthetics
351
Hegel on Music
369
Philosophy of Religion
385
Hegels Proofs of the Existence of God
414
History of Philosophy
431
From Kants Highest Good to Hegels Absolute Knowing
452
Hegel and PostHegelian Thought
475
Kierkegaard and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge
501

Hegels Idea of Life
203
Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
225
The Unwritten Volume
243
Philosophy of Right
263
The Idea of a Hegelian Science of Society
281
Hegels Political Philosophy
297
Philosophy of History
313
A Reexamination
332
Heideggers Criticism of Hegels
519
Adornos Reconception of the Dialectic
537
Hegel and Pragmatism
556
The Analytic NeoHegelianism of John McDowell and Robert Brandom
576
The Hegelian Remains of Derridas Philosophy
594
Body Shape and Plasticity
611
Index
641
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Stephen Houlgate is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics (1986), An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History (1991, 2005) and The Opening of Hegel’s Logic: From Being to Infinity (2006), and his edited volumes include Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature (1998), The Hegel Reader (1998), and G.W.F. Hegel: Outlines of the Philosophy of Right (2008). He has served as Vice President and President of the Hegel Society of America and is a former editor of the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain.

Michael Baur is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. He is Secretary of the Hegel Society of America and has published widely on phenomenology, critical theory, philosophy of law, and nineteenth-century continental philosophy, and on thinkers including Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Aristotle, and Aquinas.

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