Freedom, in Context: Time, History, and Necessity in Hegel

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Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Contextualizing Freedom
	Hegel and the Time of Necessity
		Context as Temporalization
		Context as Alterity
		Context as Contingent Necessity
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
	G. W. F. Hegel
	Immanuel Kant
	F. W. J. Schelling
	Benedict de Spinoza
Introduction: Dialectic of Freedom and Necessity
	1. Freedom and Necessity
	2. Self-Reflexivity of Freedom and History: Rebirth of Hegelian Marxism
	3. Key Arguments, Concepts, and Book Structure
Chapter 1: Freedom, Necessity, Self-Reflexive Historicity
	1. Logic, Historicity, Self-Reflexive Irreducibility
		1.1. Historical Time as the Expression of Free Spirit
		1.2. Natural Time
		1.3. Temporality, Negativity, Eternity
	2. Task of Philosophy and the Nontemporal Absolute
		2.1. Self-Reflexive Historicity of Speculation
		2.2. Self-Reflexive Historicity of Speculative Need
		2.3. Failure of Identity Philosophy
	3. Temporality as Logic and Method
		3.1. Otherness and the Infinite
		3.2. Self-Reflexive Historicity of Freedom and Necessity as Leibniz’s Monadology
	4. Historical Necessity of Spirit
		4.1. Free Will, Otherness, Right
		4.2. The Greek and the Modern
		4.3. Philosophy as Absolute Science
Chapter 2: Freedom’s Logical Temporality and Historicity
	1. Recollection, Self-Determination, Temporality, Historicity
		1.1. Recollection as a Self-Reflexive Historicist Concept
		1.2. Logic and History
		1.3. Science of Freedom as the Realm of Shadows
	2. Retroactive Temporality of Causal Necessity and Self-Determining Freedom
		2.1. Actuality as Self-Reflexive Irreducible Temporality
		2.2. The Necessity of Contingency and the Contingency of Necessity
		2.3. Mechanistic Causality, Reciprocity, and the Retroactive Temporality of Inner Necessity as Self-Determining Freedom
		2.4. Source of Freedom: Hegel Contra Duns Scotus
	3. Truth as Telos and Time: Or Absolute Idea as Being-with-Oneself-in-One’s-Other
		3.1. Irreducible and Self-Reflexive Historicity of the Concept as Truth: Spinoza, Kant
		3.2. Teleology and Temporality
		3.3. Being-with-Oneself-in-One’s-Other: Absolute Idea and Self-Reflexive Temporality
Chapter 3: Christianity and the Temporality of Freedom
	1. Religion, Philosophy, Modernity
		1.1. Divine History, Irreducibility
		1.2. Divine History, Christianity, Subjective Freedom
	2. Death of God, Retroactive Temporality, and Collective Freedom
		2.1. Representation as Chronology and Mechanistic Causality
		2.2. The Death of God
		2.3. The True Infinite and Retroactive Temporality
		2.4. The True Infinite and the Self–Other Relation
		2.5. Mechanistic Causality, Absolute Recoil, and Faith as the Sublation of Ground
Chapter 4: Political-Social Freedom and Philosophy’s Historicity
	1. Self-Reflexive and Irreducible Historicity and Political-Social Freedom
		1.1. The True Infinite as Natural Time, Eternity, and Historicity
		1.2. Absolute Idea, Right, Self-Reflexive and Irreducible Historicity
		1.3. Temporality of the Absolute Idea in Free Will and Personality
		1.4. Ethical Life and the Political State
		1.5. Spirit of a People, World History, and the Self-Reflexive Irreducibility of the End of History
	2. Self-Reflexive Philosophy, History, and Retroactive Necessity
		2.1. Absolute Spirit, Philosophy, and Historicity
		2.2. Freedom, Retroactivity, and the Cunning of Reason in History
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Notes
	Contextualizing Freedom
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Bibliography
Index