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This work gives a basic introduction to Hegel's religious thinking by seeing it against the backdrop of the main religious trends in his own day that he responded to.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: The Enlightenment's Criticism of Religion: Theology
- 2: The Enlightenment's Criticism of Religion: Philosophy
- 3: Romanticism: The Retreat to Subjectivity
- 4: Hegel's Approach and Method
- 5: Forerunners of the Christian Conception of the Divine: Judaism and Greco-Roman Polytheism
- 6: Hegel's Philosophical Interpretation of Christianity
- 7: The Omission of Islam
- 8: The Reception of Hegel's Philosophy of Religion
- 9: The Relevance of Hegel's Philosophy of Religion Today
About the author
Jon Stewart is a well-known scholar in the field of Continental philosophy. He has won awards from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Collegium Budapest, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Belgian American Educational Foundation, the Heinrich Hertz Foundation, the National Academy of Education, and the German Academic Exchange Service. He is a member of the Royal Danish Academy. He is the general editor of the series, Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources (Routledge), Texts from Golden Age Denmark and Danish Golden Age Studies (Museum Tusculanum) and Studies in the History of Western Philosophy (Brill).
Summary
This work gives a basic introduction to Hegel's religious thinking by seeing it against the backdrop of the main religious trends in his own day that he responded to.
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Stewart's book is to be praised for leading the reader to ask the sorts of evaluative questions that are raised by Hegel's philosophy of religion itself. In that way also it is an excellent introduction to Hegel's LPR and to central issues in the philosophy of religion as Hegel saw them.
