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This book shows how Hegel's concepts of alienation and recognition constituted the central motifs of philosophy in the 19th century.
List of contents
Introduction; Part I. The Beginning: 1. Hegel's Account of Alienation in the Phenomenology of Spirit; 2. Hegel's Account of Christianity and its Origins in the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion and Lectures on the Philosophy of History; Part II. The First Generation: 3. Heine, Alienation and Political Revolution; 4. Feuerbach's Doctrine of the Humanity of the Divine in The Essence of Christianity; 5. Bruno Bauer's Criticism of Christianity; Part III. The Second Generation: 6. Marx's View of Religious and Political Liberation; 7. Kierkegaard's Analysis of the Forms of Despair and Alienation; 8. Dostoevsky's Criticism of Modern Rationalism and Materialism; 9. Bakunin's Theory of Anarchy; 10. Engels' Criticism of Feuerbach and Classical German Philosophy; 11. Hegel's Long Shadow in the History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy.
About the author
Jon Stewart is a fellow of the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. His many books include Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered (Cambridge, 2003), Hegel's Interpretations of the Religions of the World (2018), and The Emergence of Subjectivity in the Ancient and Medieval World (2020), and he is editor of The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Existentialism (2020).
Summary
Hegel's Century explores the development of 19th-century German philosophy in the wake of Hegel. Jon Stewart shows how Hegel's concepts of alienation and recognition were appropriated by both the first and the second generation of his students, and demonstrates how these concepts constituted a broader cultural phenomenon.
