Interpreting Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: Expositions and Critique of Contemporary Readings

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Contributors
Introduction: On Meta-Readings
	0.1 Stein— Geist and Consciousness
	0.2 Trisokkas—Method and Truth
	0.3 Yampolskaya—Sensuous Experience in the Phenomenological Reading of the Phenomenology
	0.4 Teixeira—Ambiguities of Lordship and Bondage
	0.5 Redding—Lords and Bonds of the Mind
	0.6 Pulgar Moya—Lords and Bonds of the Factory
	0.7 Inwood—Death in the Phenomenology
	0.8 Ostritsch—Moral Duties and the Limits of the Phenomenology
	0.9 Speight—Ethical Life and the Hegelian Narrative
	0.10 Hindrichs—Trauma and History
	0.11 Wallenstein—Phenomenological End of Art
	0.12 Watkins—Understanding Hegel’s Phenomenological Account of Religion
	0.13 Mascat—A Marxist Hegel and the Need for Totality
	0.14 Boldyrev—Hegel’s Textual Work in Absolute Knowledge
	Notes
Chapter 1: Heidegger on the Beginning of Hegel’s Phenomenology
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 Absolute and Relative Knowledge, Absolute and Explicit Beginning
	1.3 The Phenomenology-System versus the Encyclopedia-System
	1.4 From the Beginning of Phenomenology to the Beginning of Logic
	1.5 Absolute Knowledge’s Coming to Itself Through Its Other
	1.6 Restlessness as the “Essence” of Absolute Knowledge
	1.7 Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 2: “Now is the Night”: Deixis in Hegel and Maldiney
	2.1 Sensuous-Certainty and the Shared World of Sense Experience
	2.2 Deixis as an Expression of the Singular: (The) Now Is the Night
	2.3 From Subjectivity in Discourse to Intersubjectivity in Sense Experience
	2.4 Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 3: Truth and (its) Appearance in Hegel’s Phenomenology : Brandom, Pippin and Houlgate on Geist and Consciousness
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 The Origins of the Phenomenology ’s Account of Consciousness and Geist
	3.3 Fichte on Appearance: I and Non-I
	3.4 Fichte’s God as Unconditioned Truth
	3.5 Hegel on Finite Consciousness and Unconditioned Truth
	3.6 The Method of Hegel’s Phenomenology
	3.7 Chapter Outlook
	3.8 Main Argument
		3.8.1 Robert Brandom on Consciousness
	3.9 A Pragmatic Take on Pragmatism
	3.10 Robert Pippin on Consciousness and Geist
	3.11 Pippin on Hegel’s Universality of Freedom
	3.12 Consciousness’s Finitude and Contingency
	3.13 Hegel on Particulars and Universality: The Concept
	3.14 Pippin on Geist and Universality
	3.15 Geist : Individuality and Appearance
	3.16 Houlgate on Consciousness and Geist
	3.17 Houlgate on Geist and Consciousness
	3.18 Houlgate on the Phenomenology ’s Method
	3.19 Hegel’s Ambiguity on Consciousness and Absolute Geist
	3.20 The Subject of Knowing and the Transition From the Phenomenology Into the System
	3.21 Overcoming of Presuppositions
	3.22 Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 4: Masters, Slaves, and Us: The Ongoing Allure of the Struggle for Recognition
	4.1 Lordship and Bondage in the Phenomenology
	4.2 Struggle for Recognition: The Agonistic Reading
		4.2.1 Kojève and the Worker as Other
		4.2.2 Beauvoir and the Woman as Other
		4.2.3. Fanon and the Black Man as Other
	4.3 Struggle for Recognition : The Reconciliatory Reading
	4.4 Hegel’s Darstellungsweise : Masters, Slaves, and Us
	4.5 Concluding Remarks: Struggle and Recognition
	Notes
Chapter 5: McDowell’s Rejection of Recognition-Based Readings of Hegel in Chapter 4 of The Phenomenology of Spirit
	5.1 McDowell’s Rejection of the Role of Intersubjective Recognition in Chapter 4 of The Phenomenology of Spirit
	5.2 Pippin’s Defence of the Role of Recognition in Chapter 4
	5.3 The Properly Hegelian Fate of Fichte’s Theory of Recognition in Chapter 4
	5.4 A Different Approach to Actuality in Hegel’s Metaphysics: Findlay and “Actualist” Modal Metaphysics
	Notes
Chapter 6: Self-Consciousness and Alienation: The Young Marx’s Reception on Hegel’s Master–Slave Dialectic
	6.1 Master–Slave Dialectic as Anthropology
		6.1.1 Marx on Hegel’s Phenomenology
		6.1.2 Kojève’s Approach to Hegel From Marx
	6.2 Back to Marx: Relations of Domination Within Alienation ( Entfremdung) in Marx’s Early Thought
	Notes
Chapter 7: Hegel on Death 1
	7.1 I
	7.2 II
	Notes
Chapter 8: “Heroism Without Fate, Self-Consciousness Without Alienation”: Antigone, Trust and the Narrative Structure of Spirit
	8.1 The Deed at the Beginning: Brandomian and Hegelian Construals of Antigone and the “Unwritten” Laws of Immediate Sittlichkeit
	8.2 Heroic Responsibility (With and Without Tragic Fate)
	8.3 From Confession to Forgiveness: Hegel and Brandom on Trust and the Narrative Structure of Spirit’s Development
	Notes
Chapter 9: Hegel Versus Subjective Duties and External Reasons: Recent Readings of “Morality” and “Conscience” in The Phenomenology of Spirit
	9.1 Introduction: An “Idiosyncratic Earlier Work”
	9.2 Moral Worldview, Dissemblance, and Conscience
	9.3 Hegel Versus Subjective Duties
	9.4 Hegel Versus External Reasons
	Notes
Chapter 10: On Comay on Hegel 1
	10.1
	10.2
	Notes
Chapter 11: Religion in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
	11.1 Introduction: Religion and Philosophy
	11.2 Hegel’s Broad Concept of Religion
	11.3 Hegel the Christian Philosopher
	11.4 An Alternative to Christianity
	11.5 Conclusion: Philosophy and Religion
	Notes
Chapter 12: Hegel’s Art-Religion in The Phenomenology of Spirit and Beyond
	12.1 The Dual Place of Art in the Phenomenology
	12.2 Art as an Object of Analysis
	12.3 Art as a “Thing of the Past” in the Berlin Lectures on Aesthetics
	Notes
Chapter 13: Absolute Mapping: Jameson’s Variations on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
	13.1 Oppositions and Variations
	13.2 Jameson, Kojève and the Postmodern Spirit
	13.3 Who’s Afraid of Absolute Knowing?
	13.4 Mapping the Absolute
	Notes
Chapter 14: The Last Sigh of Absolute Knowledge: Schiller’s Friendship and Hegel’s Readers
	14.1 Friendship ’s Unending Emendations
	14.2 Actuality: Spirit’s Self-Referential Return
	14.3 Truth—In Alteration
	14.4 Certainty, or the Final Destination
	14.5 Reading, Writing
	Notes
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