Hegel and Ancient Philosophy - A Re-Examination

List of contents

Editor’s Introduction Glenn Alexander Magee
1. Xenophanes and Pre-Socratic Thought: A Critical Perspective on Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy Robert Metcalf
2. On the Speculative Significance of Anaxagoras in Hegel’s Lectures Andrew Davis
3. Hegel on the Trial of Socrates and the End of Aesthetic Democracy Paul Wilford
4. How Hegel Read the Platonic Dialogues Jere Surber
5. The Platonic Dimension of Hegel’s System Lawrence Bruce-Robertson
6. Mens Divina as Lebendigkeit: Hegel's Interpretation of Metaphysics Andy German
7. The Way Past the Stripping Argument in Hegel and Aristotle Joshua Mendelsohn
8. The Aristotelian Metaphysics of Hegel’s ‘Soul’ Allegra de Laurentiis
9. Parts and Souls Antón Barba-Kay
10. On Contradiction: Hegel versus Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus, and Kant Richard Dien Winfield
11. On Theory and Praxis: Hegel’s Reformulation of an Aristotelian Distinction Federico Orsini
12. Ethical Life, Politics, and the Actualization of Freedom: Hegel and Aristotle’s Politics Angelica Nuzzo
13. Hegel’s Critique of Stoicism Bernardo Ferro

About the author

Glenn Alexander Magee is Professor of Philosophy at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. He is the author of Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (2001) and The Hegel Dictionary (2011), as well as editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism (2016). He was Vice President of the Hegel Society of America from 2014 to 2016.

Summary

This volume presents original essays from leading scholars that deal with Hegel?s debts to ancient thinkers, as well as his own, often problematic, readings of ancient philosophy. The essays challenge a number of longstanding scholarly assumptions about Hegel?s engagement with ancient philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Glenn Alexander Magee, Glenn Alexander (C. W. Post Campus of Long Magee
• Assisted by: Glenn Alexander Magee (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367666903
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66690-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500