Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit

Zusatztext Sedgwick's book is well written and makes an important contribution to the study of Hegel's philosophy. Informationen zum Autor In January 2019, Professor Sally Sedgwick joined the Department of Philosophy at Boston University and resigned her position as LAS Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Affiliated Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she taught from 2003-2018. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1985, and was on the faculty at Dartmouth College until 2003. Professor Sedgwick has held visiting positions at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the universities of Bonn, Bern and Luzern, and has been awarded grants by NEH, ACLS, DAAD, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation. Klappentext Sally Sedgwick examines a conspicuous feature of Hegel's major works: that they are progressive narratives. She shows the extent to which we can understand Hegel as holding that human reason and the freedom it affords us are determined by the temporal order of nature and history. Zusammenfassung Sally Sedgwick examines a conspicuous feature of Hegel's major works: that they are progressive narratives. She shows the extent to which we can understand Hegel as holding that human reason and the freedom it affords us are determined by the temporal order of nature and history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: History and Human Finitude: Kant versus Hegel 2: Hegel's "Philosophic" Approach to World History 3: Necessity in Hegel's Philosophy of History 4: Hegel's Fatalism as a Theory of Freedom 5: Freedom's Necessary Limits 6: Thought's Temporality 7: Coda: Permanence in Hegelian Thought and Spirit Works cited Index

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• Authors: Sally Sedgwick, Sally (Professor of Philosophy Sedgwick
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2023
• EAN: 9780192889751
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288975-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought