The Cambridge Companion to Hegel

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: Hegel and the Problem of Metaphysics
Notes
1: Hegel’s Intellectual Development to 1807
Notes
2: You Can’t Get There from Here: Transition Problems in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
I. What Is a Phenomenology of Spirit?
II. The Problem of the Absolute
III. Changing the Subject: From Consciousness to Spirit.
IV. Why Reason Must Become Spirit.
V. Conclusion
NOTES
3: Hegel’s Conception of Logic
I. Frege on Psychologism
II. Russell on Self-Reference
III. Understanding, Dialectic and Speculation
IV. Is the Logic Transcendental?
V. The Two Logics
VI. The Dialectic of Being
VII. Essential Speculation
VIII. Conceptual Understanding
IX. Conclusion
Notes
4: Hegel’s Idealism: The Logic of Conceptuality
I. The Metaphysics of Absolute Idealism
II. The Logic of Absolute Idealism
III. Speculative and Transcendental Logic
IV. Interpretations of Hegel’s Idealism
A. Spirit Monism
B. Non-Metaphysical Interpretations
C. Category Theory
D. Transcendental Idealism
V. Conclusion.
Notes
5: Hegel’s Dialectical Method
I. The General Character of the Method
II. The Philosophical Functions of the Method
III. The Method’s Alleged Original Sins
IV. The Origins of the Method
Notes
6: Thought and Being: Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy
I. Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy
II. Hegel’s Critique: the Underlying Assumptions
III. Hegel’s Critique: the Bill of Particulars
IV. Conclusion: the Intuitive Intellect and Radical Contingency
Notes
7: Hegel’s Ethics
I. Background
II. The Development of Hegel’s Ethical Thought
III. The Self-Actualization of Freedom
IV. Abstract Right
V. Morality
VI. Ethical Life
VII. Ethics and the Free Society
Notes
8: The Basic Context and Structure of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
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NOTES
9: Hegel’s Historicism
I. Hegel’s Historical Revolution
II. The Basis of Hegel’s Historicism
III. In Defense of Hegel’s Historicism
IV. Hegel’s Historical Method
V. The Metaphysics of Hegel’s Historicism
VI. The Politics of Hegel’s Historicism
Notes
10: Hegel on Religion and Philosophy
I. The Importance of Context
II. The Sources: Hegel’s Views on Religion and Philosophy During the Berlin Period
III. Speculative Philosophy: the Politics of Bildung in the 1820S
IV. Speculative Philosophy: Religious Metaphysics and Scientific Method
V. Christian Consciousness: Content and Form in Hegel’s Philosophy
VI. Atheism and Egocentric Religion
VII. Hegel and Panlogism: Christianity and the Activism and Progressivism of Old-left Hegelianism
VIII. Hegel and Feuerbach: From Religion to Anthropology
IX. Hegel: Thought and Action in the Context of Secularization
X. Protestantism as a Political Ideology: Hegel as a Philosopher of the Prussian State
Notes
11: Hegel’s Aesthetics: An Overview
I. Art as the Expression of Metaphysical Knowledge: Hegel’s Conception of Artistic Beauty
II. The Social Context of Artistic Expression: Art, Religion, and Philosophy
III. Hegel’s Theory of Art History: Symbolic, Classic, and Romantic Art
IV. The Five Fine Arts: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Music, and Poetry
V. Hegel’s Theory of Beauty
A. The Principle of Humanity
B. The Principle of Perfection
Perfection as Self-Correspondence
The Artistic Means to Achieve Perfection as Self-Correspondence: Idealization and Organic Unification
VI. Hegel’s “End of Art” Thesis
VII. Criticism and Conclusion
Notes
12: Transformations of Hegelianism, 1805–1846
I. Hegelianism as a Form of Speculative Idealism
II. Diversity Within Hegelianism as a Form of Speculative Idealism
III. Hegelian Humanism
IV. From Hegelian Humanism to the Analytic of Existence
Notes
13: Hegel and Marxism
Background
Dialectic
Civil Society
Estates
Bourgeois Society
Poverty in Civil Society
The Rabble
History and Spirit
National Principles and World History
Historical Materialism
Analogies and Anticipations
The Fundamental Issues
The Limits of Self-Transparency
Notes
14: Hegel and Analytic Philosophy
Notes
Bibliography
Chronology
Index
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