Hegel: New Directions

✍ Scribed by Katerina Deligiorgi (editor)

• Publisher: Acumen
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the last decade renewed interest in Hegel's thought and its legacy, especially in Anglo-American philosophy, has combined with the publication of new critical editions of his work in German to underline the value of Hegel for contemporary philosophy. "Hegel: New Directions" takes stock of this re-evaluation and presents an assessment of current thinking on this seminal philosopher. Leading scholars, who have spearheaded the reappraisal, bring the history of philosophy into dialogue with contemporary philosophical questions. Drawing on a broad range of themes, the essays offer a critical and stimulating guide to Hegel's thought, whilst addressing central questions of contemporary philosophy in epistemology, ethics, political and social theory, religion, philosophy of nature and aesthetics.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction: On reading Hegel today......Page 14
1. Hegel on conscience and the history of moral philosophy......Page 30
2. The apperceptive I and the empirical self......Page 46
3. Hegel, McDowell and recent defences of Kant......Page 62
4. Substance, subject and infinity......Page 82
5. Dialectic as logic of transformative processes......Page 98
6. Hegel, ethics and the logic of universality......Page 118
7. Recognition and reconciliation......Page 138
8. The contemporary relevance of Hegel's practical philosophy......Page 156
9. Catching up with history......Page 172
10. New directions in Hegel's philosophy of nature......Page 190
11. Hegel and the gospel according to Immanuel......Page 206
12. What is conceptual history?......Page 220
13. Hegel's interpretation of Aristotle's psyche......Page 240
Bibliography......Page 256
Index......Page 268