Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides)

Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature
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	Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature - Title page
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Dedication
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
	Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature: Its Origins, Development, and Contemporary Relevance
	Part I - Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature in the Historical and Systematic Context
	Chapter 1 - The Feebleness of the Concept in Nature: A Challenge to Conceptual Realism?
	Chapter 2 - Nature and Its Limits: Hegel’s Idealist Critiques of Physicalism, Naturalism, and Essentialism
	Chapter 3 - Naturphilosophie and the Problem of Clean Hands: Hegel and Alexander von Humboldt on Nature
	Chapter 4 - On Hegel’s Account of Nature and Its Philosophical Investigation
	Chapter 5 - The Logic of Nature: Nature as the “Idea in the Form of Otherness”
	Part II - Cosmology, Mechanics, and Physics
	Chapter 6 - Hegel’s Dissertation on the Orbits of the Planets: Plato, Kepler, and Newton as Cosmologists
	Chapter 7 - Hegel’s Syllogism of Analogy and Organic Conception of Cosmic Life: A Speculative Kantian Legacy in His Absolute Mechanics?
	Chapter 8 - Hegel’s Mechanics as a System of Steps from Space and Time to Celestial Motion
	Chapter 9 - Logic and Physics in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature
	Part III - Organics
	Chapter 10 - Hegel’s Theory of Animal Embodiment
	Chapter 11 - A Past without History and the Conditions of Life: Hegel on the Terrestrial Organism
	Chapter 12 - Human Beings as the “Perfect Animals”: Hegel on the Difference between Animal Life and Human Spirit
	Part IV - On Contemporary Challenges for the Philosophy of Nature
	Chapter 13 - The Prospects for an Idealist Natural Philosophy: Logic and Nature
	Chapter 14 - Is There a Future for the Philosophy of Nature?
Bibliography
Index
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