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Informationen zum Autor Wes Furlotte is Professor of Philosophy at Dominican University College and part-time Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. Specialising in German idealism and 19th- and 20th-century European thought, he has published on problems in ontology, epistemology and socio-political philosophy. Klappentext 'With clarity and rigor, Wes Furlotte provides a fundamental and sweeping reassessment of Hegel's intellectual itinerary as well as his mature philosophical project. He convincingly recasts Hegelian Naturphilosophie as absolutely central to Hegel's larger framework. What is more, Furlotte's depiction of the situation of human mindedness and culture within the broader expanse of natural reality renders the Hegelian Philosophy of Nature strikingly timely - a live theoretical option for the early twenty-first century. This book makes crucial contributions to the ongoing reassessment of Hegel's enduring significance.'Adrian Johnston, University of New MexicoHegel's system reconsidered from the perspective of contemporary philosophyWes Furlotte critically evaluates Hegel's philosophy of human freedom in terms of his often disregarded conception of nature. In doing so he gives us a new portrait of Hegel's final system - one that is surprisingly relevant for our contemporary world - making connections with recent work in speculative realism and new materialism.Furlotte offers a sophisticated sense of the fundamental materialism permeating Hegel's concept of freedom and how the former serves as the inescapable precondition of subjectivity and social history. He also reveals the ways in which material nature and culture's reactions to it problematise human freedom - even threaten it with utter annihilation.This book forces us to reconsider accepted accounts of Hegel's system and to re-evaluate what his thought, and German Idealism, might still offer us today.Wes Furlotte teaches at the Dominican University College and the University of Ottawa.Cover image: Untitled, 2017 © Anna Binta Diallo annabintadiallo.com / rtzndesign.comCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-3553-6BarcodeWes Furlotte critically evaluates Hegel's philosophy of human freedom in terms of his often-disregarded conception of nature. In doing so, he gives us a new portrait of Hegel's final system that is surprisingly relevant for our contemporary world, connecting it with recent work in speculative realism and new materialism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Problem of a Philosophical Rendering of Nature and Hegel's Philosophy of the Real; Part I: 'Gleaming leprosy in the sky'; 1. The 'Non-Whole' of Hegelian Nature: Extrinsicality and the Problems of Sickness and Death; 2. The Instability of Space-Time and the Contingency of Necessity; 3. The Problem of Nature's Spurious Infinite within the Register of Animal Life; 4. Assimilation and the Problems of Sex, Violence, and Sickness unto Death; Part II: Spirit's Birth from within the Bio-Material World; 5. The Other Hegel: The Anthropology and Spirit's Birth from within the Bio-Material World; 6. Embodiment: Spirit, Material-Maternal Dependence, and the Problem of the in utero; 7. The Nightmare of Reason and Regression into the Night of the World; 8. Treatment as (re-)Habituation: From Psychopathology to (re-)Actualised Subjectivity; Part III: The Problem of Surplus Repressive Punishment; 9. An Introduction to the Problem of Surplus Repressive Punishment; 10. Abstract Right: Natural Immediacy within the Matrices of Personhood; 11. Crime, the Negation of Right, and the Problem of European Colonial Consciousness; 12. Surplus Repressive Punishment and Spirit's Regressive (de-)Actualisation; Conclusion: Freedom within Two Natures, or, the Nature-Spirit Dialectic in the Final System; Bibliography; Index....
