Hegel on Philosophy in History

This book investigates Hegel's historical conception of philosophy: as built upon and reviving prior views, and as speaking to its historical context.

List of contents

Part I. Philosophy and History in Hegel: 1. Why does it matter for Hegel that Geist has a history? John McDowell; 2. Remarks on history, contingency, and necessity in Hegel's Science of Logic Sally Sedgwick; 3. Philosophy and the stream of cultural history Ludwig Siep; Part II. Aristotelian Master and Stoic Slave: 4. From epistemic incorporation to cognitive transformation Paul Redding; 5. Freedom, norms, and nature in Hegel: Self-Legislation or Self-Realization Robert Stern; 6. The form of self-consciousness Terry Pinkard; 7. Hegel on objects as subjects Rolf-Peter Horstmann; 8. The historical turn and late modernity Karl Ameriks; Part III. Hegel and After: 9. Autonomy and liberation: the historicity of freedom Christoph Menke; 10. Three, not two, concepts of liberty: a proposal to enlarge our moral self-understanding Axel Honneth; 11. 'Our amphibian problem': nature in history in Adorno's Hegelian Critique of Hegel Jay Bernstein; 12. Comedy between the ugly and the sublime Slavoj Žižek; 13. The Freudian sabbath Jonathan Lear; Bibliography.

About the author

Rachel Zuckert is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, Illinois.James Kreines is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, California.

Summary

In this comprehensive collection of essays in honour of the distinguished scholar of Hegel, Robert Pippin, leading philosophers investigate Hegel's historical conception of philosophy. Hegelian doctrines explored include the purported end of art, Hegel's view of human history, progress through history to modernity, and the continuing importance of Aristotelian ethics in modernity.

Product details

• Authors: EDITED BY RACHEL ZUC, Rachel Zuckert, Rachel (Northwestern University Zuckert
• Assisted by: James Kreines (Editor), James (Claremont McKenna College Kreines (Editor), Kreines James (Editor), Rachel Zuckert (Editor), Rachel (Northwestern University Zuckert (Editor), ZUCKERT RACHEL (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781107472365
• ISBN: 978-1-107-47236-5
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought