The Idealism of Freedom: For a Hegelian Turn in Philosophy

Half Title......Page 1
Series Information......Page 2
Title Page......Page 3
Copyright Page......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Part 1 On the Fundament of Hegel’s Philosophy......Page 11
1 With What Must the Science Begin?......Page 13
2 Mediation or Immediacy......Page 14
3 The Beginning of Practical Philosophy......Page 18
4 Conclusion......Page 22
Chapter 2 Hegel’s Sicilian Defence: Beyond Realism and Constructivism......Page 23
1 The Logic of Essence......Page 24
2 Immanent Negativity......Page 30
3 Conclusion......Page 32
Chapter 3 The “Reversal of Consciousness Itself”: Along the Path of the Phenomenology of Spirit......Page 33
1 Reversals......Page 34
2 Conclusion......Page 47
Chapter 4 Pyrrho and the Wisdom of the Animals: Hegel on Scepticism......Page 49
1.1 “Subjectivity of Character” – Practical Scepticism as a Way of Life......Page 51
1.2 ‘Thinking’ Pyrrhonism – ‘Subjectivity of Knowledge’......Page 55
2 Happy and Unhappy Consciousness......Page 57
3.1 The First Moment (§5)......Page 61
3.2 The Second Moment (§6)......Page 62
3.3 The Unity of Both Moments (§7)......Page 63
4 Ataraxia and Conscience......Page 65
Part 2 Hegel’s Practical Philosophy as a Philosophy of Freedom......Page 69
1 The Foundational Structure of the Will – §§5–7......Page 71
1.1 §5 – The First Moment of the Concept of Free Will (Universality – U)......Page 72
1.2 §6 – The Second Moment of the Free Will – the Particular Concept (Particularity– P)......Page 74
1.3 §7 The Logical Unity of Both Moments, the Determination of Both Concepts – Individuality (I) as Reason, as the Concept Itself......Page 75
1.4 §§8–28 Further Determination of the Basic Pattern......Page 76
1.4.2 Will and Nature......Page 77
1.4.4 Doing What One Wants – the Arbitrary Will as a Necessary and Insufficient Moment of Free Will, as Formal, Irrational Will......Page 78
1.4.5 The Truly Universal Will......Page 81
2 Conclusion......Page 82
1 The Concept of the Person......Page 83
2 Personality and Inter-Personality – Recognition of the Person and Legal Capacity......Page 85
3 Wrong and the Theory of ‘Second Coercion’......Page 86
4.2.1 The Infinite Judgment as Identical – Deception......Page 91
4.2.2 The Infinite-Negative Judgment – Crime......Page 92
Chapter 7 Care and Forethought: The Idea of Sustainability in Hegel’s Practical Philosophy......Page 94
1 Property......Page 95
2 Property and the ‘Formation’ of the Natural......Page 96
2.1 Self-formation – the Appropriation of the Body as the Natural, Immediate Existence of the Person......Page 97
3 The Appropriation of Elemental Things......Page 99
4 ‘Forethought Which Looks to, and Secures, the Future’......Page 100
5 Natural Sustainability – the Forest as Paradigm......Page 102
Chapter 8 Hegel’s Philosophical Theory of Action......Page 106
1 Crime and Punishment – the Eumenides and Hegel’s Grounding of Punishment in the Theory of Action......Page 109
1.1 The Necessary Self-Transcendence of the Structure of Wrong......Page 112
1.2 The Transition from Abstract Right to Morality......Page 113
2 Orestes and Oedipus – Heroic Self-Consciousness and Modernity......Page 115
2.1 Hegel’s Doctrine of Judgements as the Logical Ground of Morality......Page 118
2.2 The Right of Knowing – Acting in Knowledge......Page 119
2.3 The Right to Knowing and Heroic Self-Consciousness in Works of Art......Page 120
Chapter 9 Beyond Wall Street: Hegel as Founder of the Concept of a Welfare State......Page 125
1 Civil Society as Modern Community of Market, Education and Solidarity......Page 126
2 All-round Dependence in the ‘Community of Need and Understanding’......Page 128
3 Political Economy and the Regulated Market......Page 130
4 Regulation and Social Organization......Page 131
6 Social Care and Forethought – Foundations of Hegel’s Conception of a Social State......Page 132
Chapter 10 The State and Its Logical Foundations......Page 135
1 The State as a Whole Consisting of Three Syllogisms......Page 137
2 The State as a Triad of Syllogisms......Page 138
3.1 The Qualitative Syllogism I-P-U......Page 139
3.2 The Syllogism of Reflexion U-I-P......Page 140
3.3 P-U-I the Syllogism of Necessity......Page 141
4 A New Conception of the Separation and Interdependence of State Powers......Page 143
5 The Constitution as a System of Three Syllogisms – a Reformulation of the Philosophy of Right......Page 144
6 The State as a System of Three Syllogisms – against the Letter of the Philosophy of Right......Page 147
7 The Universal, Law-Making Power – the Syllogism of Necessity 
(P-U-I)......Page 148
8 The Categorical Syllogism......Page 150
10 The Disjunctive Syllogism......Page 151
Chapter 11 The Right of Resistance......Page 154
1 Considerations on the Right of Necessity......Page 155
2 The Concept of Second Coercion......Page 157
3 The Stages of the Inversive Right of Resistance......Page 159
3.1 The Right to Personhood......Page 160
3.3 The Right of Necessity......Page 161
3.4 Moral Resistance......Page 162
3.5 Resistance to Poverty......Page 163
3.6 Political Resistance......Page 164
4 Conclusion: State of Exception and Second Coercion......Page 169
Part 3 Hegel on Art and Religion......Page 171
1 Imagination and Mind......Page 173
2 From Intuition to Representation......Page 175
3.1 Recollection......Page 177
3.2.1 First Stage: Reproductive Imagination......Page 179
3.2.2 Second Stage: Productive, Associative Imagination – Fantasy......Page 180
3.2.3 Third Stage: Sign-Making Fantasy......Page 182
Chapter 13 The World Turned Upside Down......Page 184
1 Reversals as Fantasy Castlings......Page 188
1.1 Heaven and Hell, or: the ‘Sacraments of the Devil’......Page 191
2 Narrating Lives and Journeys ‘Downhill’......Page 193
3 Free hystera protera: Scepticism – Music – Carnival – Politics......Page 195
4 Closing Remarks, or: Endgame......Page 196
Chapter 14 On Hegel’s Humour......Page 198
1 Negativity and Humour......Page 203
2 The Victory of Subjectivity......Page 206
1 Basic Determinations of the Transition......Page 208
2 Core Determinations of the Turning Point of the Transition, the Final Return out of the Realm of Representation......Page 210
2.1 Representation as Mean between Universality and Individuality......Page 211
2.2 The Form of Representationalism......Page 214
2.3 Immediacy and Being......Page 215
2.4 Representation and Event – Divine History......Page 216
3 Freedom and Comprehensive Thought......Page 219
1 The First ‘Translation’: That of Antiquity......Page 222
3 Religion and Philosophy – Imagination and Concept......Page 225
4 Buddhism as a Religion of Silent Being-in-itself......Page 226
5 Freedom from Oneself and the Beautiful Soul......Page 230
7 Brief Resumé......Page 231
Other Hegel Works Cited......Page 233
Secondary Texts......Page 234