Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit': A Critical Guide

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
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Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Notes on the contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 13
Abbreviations and citations......Page 19
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 21
2.1 Introducing science......Page 23
2.2 Epistemic justification and skepticism......Page 25
3.1 From substance to subject......Page 26
3.2 Knowledge as system......Page 29
4.1 The argument from self-creation of the epistemic standard......Page 33
4.2 The argument from the history of self-consciousness......Page 36
5 CONCLUS ION......Page 39
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CHAPTER 3 The Phenomenology of Spirit as a ‘‘transcendentalistic’’ argument for a monistic ontology......Page 63
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CHAPTER 5 From desire to recognition: Hegel’s account of human sociality......Page 96
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CHAPTER 6 ‘‘Reason . . . apprehended irrationally’’: Hegel’s critique of Observing Reason......Page 111
1 THE PLACE OF ‘‘OBSERVING REASON’’ IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY......Page 112
1.1 Two kinds of difficulties......Page 114
1.2 The basic structure of Observing Reason......Page 116
2.1 Logical laws?......Page 118
2.2 Psychological laws?......Page 119
2.3 Hegel’s conception of the mental......Page 120
3 PHYSIOGNOMY AND PHRENOLOGY......Page 122
3.1 Variations about ‘‘inner’’ and ‘‘outer’’: five antitheses......Page 123
3.2 The ‘‘inverted relationship’’ of physiognomy......Page 125
3.3 Phrenology......Page 127
4 THE TOPICALITY OF HEGEL’S DISCUSSION OF OBSERVING REASON......Page 129
CHAPTER 7 What is a ‘‘shape of spirit’’?......Page 132
1 SHAPES OF SPIRIT AS SHAPES OF CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 133
2 FROM EMPIRE TO SITTLICHKEIT......Page 138
3 THE VIOLENCE CONSCIOUSNESS SUFFERS AT ITS OWN HANDS......Page 141
CHAPTER 8 Ethical life, morality, and the role of spirit in the Phenomenology of Spirit......Page 150
2 THREE INTERPRETATIONS OF ETHICAL LIFE , MORALITY , AND THE SPIRIT CHAPTER......Page 152
2.1 Hegel changed his mind about substantive issues......Page 153
2.2 Hegel changed his mind about the purpose and scope of the Phenomenology......Page 154
2.3 Hegel changed his mind about terminology......Page 158
3 FROM REASON TO SPIRIT, ETHICALLIFE , AND MORALITY......Page 160
4 A FOURTH INTERPRETATION OF ETHICAL LIFE, MORALITY, AND THE SPIRIT CHAPTER......Page 165
CHAPTER 9 Self-completing alienation: Hegel’s argument for transparent conditions of free agency......Page 170
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1 THE CONCEPT OF SPIRIT AND ITS HISTORICAL ORIGIN......Page 193
2 ETHICAL SPIRIT IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY......Page 195
3 THE COMPLETION OF MORAL SPIRIT IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY......Page 200
4 PRACTICAL REASON AND ETHICAL SPIRIT IN HEGEL AND MODERN ETHICS......Page 206
CHAPTER 11 Religion and demythologization in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit......Page 212
1 NATURAL RELIGION......Page 217
2 RELIGION OF ART......Page 218
3 REVEALED RELIGION......Page 221
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Bibliography......Page 248
Index......Page 257