Hegel on Self-Consciousness - Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit

About the author

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. His books include Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life and Henry James and Modern Moral Life.

Summary

In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and that it attains its "satisfaction" only in another self-consciousness. Hegel on Self-Consciousness presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of thes

Product details

• Authors: Robert B. Pippin
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2014
• EAN: 9780691163413
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16341-3
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge