In The Paradigm of Recognition. Freedom as Overcoming the Fear of Death Paul Cobben elaborates a paradigm of recognition based on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. This framework enables fundamental ...criticism of Honneth's three forms of social freedom.
The period leading up to the Revolutions of 1848 was a seminal moment in the history of political thought, demarcating the ideological currents and defining the problems of freedom and social ...cohesion which are among the key issues of modern politics. This 2006 anthology offers research on Hegel's followers in the 1830s and 1840s. With essays by philosophers, political scientists, and historians from Europe and North America, it pays special attention to questions of state power, the economy, poverty, and labour, as well as to ideas on freedom. The book examines the political and social thought of Eduard Gans, Ludwig Feuerbach, Max Stirner, Bruno and Edgar Bauer, the young Engels, and Marx. It places them in the context of Hegel's philosophy, the Enlightenment, Kant, the French Revolution, industrialization, and urban poverty. It also views Marx and Engels in relation to their contemporaries and interlocutors in the Hegelian school.
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is a work with few equals in systematic integrity, philosophical originality and historical influence. This collection of essays, contributed ...by leading Hegel scholars, examines all aspects of the work, from its argumentative strategies to its continuing relevance to philosophical debates. The collection combines close analysis with wide-ranging coverage of the text, and also traces connections with debates extending beyond Hegel scholarship, including issues in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, ethics, and philosophy of religion. In showing clearly that we have not yet exhausted the Phenomenology's insights, it demonstrates the need for contemporary philosophers to engage with Hegel.
Petrified Intelligence offers the first comprehensive treatment of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature, exploring its central place within his system, including its relation to his Logic, Philosophy of ...Mind, and moral and political thought. It highlights the contemporary relevance of Hegel’s approach to nature, particularly with respect to environmental issues. Challenging the standard view that Hegel devalues nature relative to mind and culture, Alison Stone reveals the deep concern to re-enchant the natural world that pervades his entire philosophical project. Written in clear and nontechnical language, the book also provides a critical introduction to Hegel’s metaphysics.
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit exerts a unique influence
on contemporary philosophy. Major figures from Jacques Derrida and
Luce Irigaray to Jean-Paul Sartre and Judith Butler were shaped in
large ...part through their engagement with Hegel's challenging
masterwork. It unfolds a grand narrative of the ways of thinking
and acting that comprise human experience. Along the way, Hegel
seeks to incorporate all the fundamental structures of human
life-from political community to consciousness to selfhood-into a
whole that encompasses the total movement of human knowledge and
culture. Mary C. Rawlinson offers a critical reading of the
Phenomenology of Spirit that exposes three crucial
elisions: Hegel's effacements of sexual difference, human
mortality, and literary style. In attempting to arrive at an
"absolute knowing" that would transcend all differences, Hegel
discounts specificity in each of these areas in favor of a generic
subject. Rawlinson turns Hegel's critique of abstraction against
him, showing how his own phenomenological analysis undermines his
attempt to master difference. Rawlinson's critique reveals Hegel's
attempt to erase the difference of his own style, highlighting his
images, tropes, and rhetorical strategies. Demonstrating how the
power of Hegel's phenomenological method goes beyond even Hegel's
own project of a pure logic, The Betrayal of Substance is
a magisterial rereading of the Phenomenology of Spirit
that encompasses crucially overlooked sites of complexity and
difference.
This fresh and original book argues that the central questions in Hegel's practical philosophy are the central questions in modern accounts of freedom: What is freedom, or what would it be to act ...freely? Is it possible so to act? And how important is leading a free life? Robert Pippin argues that the core of Hegel's answers is a social theory of agency, the view that agency is not exclusively a matter of the self-relation and self-determination of an individual but requires the right sort of engagement with and recognition by others. Using a detailed analysis of key Hegelian texts, he develops this interpretation to reveal the bearing of Hegel's claims on many contemporary issues, including much-discussed core problems in the liberal democratic tradition. His important study will be valuable for all readers who are interested in Hegel's philosophy and in the modern problems of agency and freedom.
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