Starting with Hegel

Contents......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 8
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION......Page 14
i. The Falling of Dusk......Page 18
ii. Speculative Hermeneutics......Page 28
iii. Organic Unity and Self-Development......Page 34
iv. Plan and Strategy of the Book......Page 38
CHAPTER 2: HEGEL’S EARLY WRITINGS: OVERCOMING SEPARATION......Page 41
i. The Need for Philosophy......Page 44
ii. Love and Recognition......Page 49
iii. God Himself is Dead......Page 52
iv. Alienation, Community, and the Modern State......Page 57
CHAPTER 3: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT: THE SATISFACTIONS AND DISSATISFACTIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 63
i. Supersession and Hegelian Irony......Page 65
ii. Pure and Impure Recognition......Page 71
iii. Self-Alienated Spirit......Page 75
iv. The Path to Absolute Knowledge......Page 83
CHAPTER 4: HEGEL’S ENCYCLOPEDIA: THE STRUCTURE OF BEING, NATURE, AND MIND......Page 92
i. Throwing Away the Ladder......Page 95
ii. Reason and ‘The Understanding’......Page 99
iii. Necessity in Nature......Page 102
iv. The Emergence of Spirit......Page 107
CHAPTER 5: THE PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT: FREEDOM AS SELF-REALIZATION......Page 112
i. Self-Realization and ‘Ethical Life’......Page 115
ii. Identification and Externalization......Page 120
iii. Acting in Accordance with Reason......Page 125
iv. Bildung and the Korporation......Page 130
CHAPTER 6: THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: REASON RULES THE WORLD......Page 136
i. Necessity and Contingency in History......Page 139
ii. The Path of Freedom......Page 144
iii. Progressivism and the ‘End of History’......Page 148
iv. The Twilight of the Modern State......Page 152
CHAPTER 7: ABSOLUTE SPIRIT: ART, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY......Page 158
i. Absolutely Fundamental Values......Page 160
ii. Art is a Thing of the Past......Page 164
iii. Religion is for Everyone......Page 171
iv. The Practice of Philosophy......Page 174
Further Reading......Page 178
B......Page 184
E......Page 185
H......Page 186
M......Page 187
P......Page 188
S......Page 189
W......Page 190