A Companion to Hegel

Copyright © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Hegel

Editor(s): Stephen Houlgate, Michael Baur

Published Online: 20 APR 2011 09:55AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405170765

Online ISBN: 9781444397161

DOI: 10.1002/9781444397161

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This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays that cover the whole range of Hegel's mature thought and his lasting influence.

  • A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophers
  • Essays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most up-to-date Hegel research
  • Contributions are drawn from across the world and from a wide variety of philosophical approaches and traditions
  • Examines Hegel's influence on a range of thinkers, from Kierkegaard and Marx to Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida
  • Begins with a chronology of Hegel's life and work and is then split into sections covering topics such as Philosophy of Nature, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Religion

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xviii)

    1. G.W.F. Hegel: An Introduction to His Life and Thought (pages 1–19)

      Stephen Houlgate

  3. Part I: Early Writings

    1. Chapter 1

      Religion, Love, and Law: Hegel's Early Metaphysics of Morals (pages 21–44)

      Katerina Deligiorgi

  4. Part II: Phenomenology of Spirit

    1. Chapter 2

      The Project of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (pages 45–67)

      John Russon

    2. Chapter 3

      Self-Consciousness, Anti-Cartesianism, and Cognitive Semantics in Hegel's 1807 Phenomenology (pages 68–90)

      Kenneth R. Westphal

    3. Chapter 4

      Spirit as the “Unconditioned” (pages 91–107)

      Terry Pinkard

  5. Part III: Logic

    1. Chapter 5

      Thinking Being: Method in Hegel's Logic of Being (pages 109–138)

      Angelica Nuzzo

    2. Chapter 6

      Essence, Reflexion, and Immediacy in Hegel's Science of Logic (pages 139–158)

      Stephen Houlgate

    3. Chapter 7

      Conceiving (pages 159–174)

      John W. Burbidge

  6. Part IV: Philosophy of Nature

    1. Chapter 8

      Hegel and the Sciences (pages 175–202)

      Thomas Posch

    2. Chapter 9

      The Transition to Organics: Hegel's Idea of Life (pages 203–224)

      Cinzia Ferrini

  7. Part V: Philosophy of Subjective Spirit

    1. Chapter 10

      Hegel's Solution to the Mind-Body Problem (pages 225–242)

      Richard Dien Winfield

    2. Chapter 11

      Hegel's Philosophy of Language: The Unwritten Volume (pages 243–261)

      Jere O'Neill Surber

  8. Part VI: Philosophy of Right

    1. Chapter 12

      Hegel on the Empty Formalism of Kant's Categorical Imperative (pages 263–280)

      Sally Sedgwick

    2. Chapter 13

      The Idea of a Hegelian ‘Science’ of Society (pages 281–296)

      Frederick Neuhouser

    3. Chapter 14

      Hegel's Political Philosophy (pages 297–311)

      Allen W. Wood

  9. Part VII: Philosophy of History

    1. Chapter 15

      “The Ruling Categories of the World”: The Trinity in Hegel's Philosophy of History and the Rise and Fall of Peoples (pages 313–331)

      Robert Bernasconi

    2. Chapter 16

      Hegel and Ranke: A Re-examination (pages 332–350)

      Frederick C. Beiser

  10. Part VIII: Aesthetics

    1. Chapter 17

      Hegel and the “Historical Deduction” of the Concept of Art (pages 351–368)

      Allen Speight

    2. Chapter 18

      Soundings: Hegel on Music (pages 369–384)

      John Sallis

  11. Part IX: Philosophy of Religion

    1. Chapter 19

      Love, Recognition, Spirit: Hegel's Philosophy of Religion (pages 385–413)

      Robert R. Williams

    2. Chapter 20

      Hegel's Proofs of the Existence of God (pages 414–429)

      Peter C. Hodgson

  12. Part X: History of Philosophy

    1. Chapter 21

      Hegel's Aristotle: Philosophy and Its Time (pages 431–451)

      Alfredo Ferrarin

    2. Chapter 22

      From Kant's Highest Good to Hegel's Absolute Knowing (pages 452–473)

      Michael Baur

  13. Part XI: Hegel and Post-Hegelian Thought

    1. Chapter 23

      Hegel and Marx (pages 475–500)

      Andrew Chitty

    2. Chapter 24

      Kierkegaard and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge (pages 501–518)

      Jon Stewart

    3. Chapter 25

      Thinking of Nothing: Heidegger's Criticism of Hegel's Conception of Negativity (pages 519–536)

      Daniel O. Dahlstrom

    4. Chapter 26

      Adorno's Reconception of the Dialectic (pages 537–555)

      Brian O'Connor

    5. Chapter 27

      Hegel and Pragmatism (pages 556–575)

      Robert Stern

    6. Chapter 28

      The Analytic Neo-Hegelianism of John McDowell and Robert Brandom (pages 576–593)

      Paul Redding

    7. Chapter 29

      Différance as Negativity: The Hegelian Remains of Derrida's Philosophy (pages 594–610)

      Karin de Boer

    8. Chapter 30

      You Be My Body for Me: Body, Shape, and Plasticity in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (pages 611–640)

      Catherine Malabou and Judith Butler

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      Index (pages 641–649)

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      Blackwell Companions to Philosophy (pages 651–652)

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