The Palgrave Hegel Handbook

Series Editor’s Preface......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Contents......Page 21
Notes on Contributors......Page 25
Introduction: Understanding Hegel and His Philosophical Project......Page 38
Part I Intellectual Background and Philosophical Project......Page 52
Chapter 1 Hegel: His Life and His Path in Philosophy......Page 53
1 Early Life and First Encounter with Philosophy......Page 54
2 Time in Tübingen: Acquaintance with Hölderlin and Schelling, and Lived Experience of the French Revolution......Page 56
3 Pre-Jena Period: Despair, Uncertainty and Desire for a New Path......Page 58
4 At Jena: Launching His Academic Career......Page 60
5 Between Jena and Heidelberg: Another Period of Despair......Page 63
6 Heidelberg Period: Return to the University......Page 66
7 Call to Berlin: Realization of Goals and Ambitions......Page 67
Bibliography......Page 70
Chapter 2 Situating Hegel: From Transcendental Philosophy to a Phenomenology of Spirit......Page 72
1 Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy......Page 73
2 Early Skeptical Critiques of Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy......Page 75
3 Fichte’s Philosophy of Freedom......Page 79
4 Schelling’s Turn to Spinoza......Page 84
5 On the Way to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit......Page 87
Bibliography......Page 93
1 Introduction......Page 94
2 Kant and the History of Pure Reason......Page 97
3 Hamann, Herder and the “Meta-critique” of Pure Reason......Page 98
4 The Profusion of Post-critique Alternatives......Page 99
5 Hegel’s “Self-Consummating Skepticism”......Page 101
6 The Twin Targets of Hegel’s Phenomenological Critique......Page 104
7 Hegel’s Phenomenological, Critical History of Pure Reason in the 1807 Phenomenology......Page 106
8 Hegelian Conclusions......Page 108
Bibliography......Page 110
Chapter 4 Hegel’s Epistemology......Page 114
1 Problems of Scholarly Neglect of Hegel’s Epistemology......Page 115
2 Hegel’s Striking Originality in Epistemology......Page 116
3 Skeptical Naturalism and Reconceiving Knowing as a Dynamic Process......Page 118
4 Kant’s Critical Self-Scrutiny of Reason is Achieved Historically......Page 121
5 Hegel’s Systematic Philosophy Anticipates (inter alia) Structural Realism......Page 124
6 Knowing is Anchored in Doing, in Practical Reasoning and Activities......Page 127
Bibliography......Page 129
Part II Phenomenology of Spirit......Page 131
1 Introduction......Page 132
2 Hegel’s Ambiguous Discussion of the Presupposition Question......Page 133
3 Hegel’s Scientific Proof Procedure......Page 135
4 Consciousness Retreats into the Infinity of Life and Self-Consciousness......Page 138
5 Self-Consciousness Retreats into the Transcendence of the Rational......Page 140
6 The Emergence of the Irrational and the Retreat into Spirit......Page 142
7 The Spirit of the Enlightenment......Page 144
8 The Spirit of the Moral World and the Retreat into Religion......Page 146
9 The Spirit of Religion and the Retreat into Absolute Knowing......Page 149
10 Conclusion......Page 152
Bibliography......Page 154
1 Introduction and Main Results......Page 156
2 Systematic and Conceptual Background......Page 163
2.1 Ding an sich, Transcendental Apperception, and Intellectual Intuition......Page 165
2.2 Self-Consciousness......Page 166
2.3 Being an Object of Knowledge and Being as a Performative Attitude......Page 167
3.1 Deconstructing Empiricist Self-Knowledge......Page 168
3.3 Deconstructing Intuitive Appeals to Reason......Page 169
3.4 Human Spirit as the Form of a Personal Subject in We-Groups......Page 171
4.1 Finite Knowledge and the Practical Role of Ideals......Page 172
4.2 The Idea of the Good......Page 174
4.4 Mundane Truth in Religion and Art vs. Parochial Views in Empiricism and Scientism......Page 175
5 Conclusion......Page 176
Bibliography......Page 178
Chapter 7 Individuality, Individualism and Our Human Zoôn Politikon......Page 179
Bibliography......Page 193
Part III Science of Logic and the System of Philosophy......Page 195
Chapter 8 Method in Hegel’s Dialectic-Speculative Logic......Page 196
1 Form and Content of Thinking: Formal, Transcendental, Dialectic-Speculative Logic......Page 198
2 Method and the Inner Self-Movement of the Content......Page 206
3 Conclusion......Page 209
Bibliography......Page 210
Chapter 9 Aufhebung......Page 212
1......Page 214
2......Page 217
2.1......Page 218
2.2......Page 219
2.3......Page 220
3......Page 223
4......Page 225
Bibliography......Page 227
1 Introduction......Page 228
2 A Tale of Two Stories......Page 231
3 “Freedom Is Not Free”......Page 232
4 Kill, Eat, Be Free......Page 235
5 An Exercise in Idealism......Page 239
Bibliography......Page 242
Part IV Philosophy of Nature......Page 243
Chapter 11 Levels of Reality or Development? Hegel’s Realphilosophie and Philosophy of the Sciences......Page 244
1......Page 247
2......Page 256
Bibliography......Page 261
1 Introduction......Page 262
2 Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism......Page 263
3 Hegel’s Lessons from and Corrections to Kant’s Critical Philosophy......Page 264
4 Hegel and Scientific Biology......Page 269
5 Hegel’s Central Theses in “Force and Understanding”......Page 270
6 Hegel’s Semantics: Conceptual Explication and ‘the Necessity of the Concept’......Page 271
7 One Central Aim of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature......Page 275
Bibliography......Page 278
1 Introduction......Page 283
2.1 Nature as the Idea in the Form of Being-Other......Page 284
2.2 The Quantitative Beginning of the Philosophy of Nature: Indifferent Spatial Externality in Mechanics......Page 288
2.3 The Significance of Space in the Physics of Individualized Matter......Page 293
3.1 Animal Life and Its Space......Page 295
3.2 Geognosy, Physical Geography and World History: Hegel’s Speculative Deduction of Natural Spaces......Page 297
4.1 Space from the Natural Soul to the Phenomenality of Spirit......Page 300
Bibliography......Page 307
Part V Philosophy of Spirit......Page 309
Chapter 14 Embodied Cognition, Habit, and Natural Agency in Hegel’s Anthropology......Page 310
1.1 Embodiment......Page 311
1.2 Self-Organization......Page 312
1.3 Interaction......Page 313
2 Embodied Cognition......Page 314
3 Habit as Sensorimotor Life Form......Page 316
3.1 Bodily Memory and Imagination......Page 319
3.2 The Integration of Holism and Associationism in Habit Formation......Page 321
3.3 Lower and Higher Level Habits, and Animal Life......Page 323
4 Embodiment Revisited. Physiological, Functional, and Phenomenological Aspects......Page 325
5 Habits and the Conditions of Agency......Page 328
5.1 Hegel’s Continuity Thesis......Page 332
Bibliography......Page 334
1 Introduction......Page 337
2 On Waking up to Sentience......Page 339
3 On Quivering, Sensibility, and Sentience......Page 342
4 Transition from Sentience to Feeling......Page 344
5 On Self-Feeling......Page 347
6 Conclusion......Page 351
Bibliography......Page 354
Chapter 16 Intuition, Representation, and Thinking: Hegel’s Psychology and the Placement Problem......Page 356
1 The Method......Page 358
2 Intuition......Page 362
3 Representation......Page 364
3.1 Recollection (Erinnerung)......Page 366
3.2 Imagination (Einbildungskraft)......Page 367
3.3 Memory (Gedächtnis)......Page 368
4 Thinking (Denken)......Page 369
5 Conclusion: Overcoming the Dilemma......Page 371
Bibliography......Page 374
Chapter 17 Hegel on Poetry, Prose and the Origin of the Arts......Page 376
1 Hegel on the Origins of Poetry and Art......Page 377
2 The Development of Prose......Page 380
3 Poetry in the Developed World of Prose: The Literary and Post-romantic Art......Page 382
4 Conclusions and Questions......Page 386
Bibliography......Page 388
1 Introduction......Page 390
2 Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Understanding of Religion......Page 392
3 Philosophy of Religion Displaces Traditional Natural Theology......Page 393
4 Kant’s Fact of Reason: From Immanence to Transcendence......Page 394
5 Hegel’s Fact of Religion as Elevation of Spirit to God......Page 395
6 The Cosmological Proof......Page 397
7 The Defect in the Traditional Cosmological Proof......Page 399
8 Differentiating Elevation of Spirit from the Traditional Cosmological Proof......Page 400
9 The True Infinite: The Ontological Proof and the Unity of the Proofs......Page 404
Bibliography......Page 409
Part VI Practical and Political Philosophy......Page 410
Chapter 19 Logic and Social Theory: Hegel on the Conceptual Significance of Political Change......Page 411
1 The Logical Significance of the Objectivity of Political Spirit......Page 414
2 The Logical Significance of Free Choice of Profession Open to Talent......Page 417
3 The Logical Significance of Social Pluralism......Page 420
4 Conclusion......Page 424
Bibliography......Page 425
1 Criticism of Kant’s Formalism as Criticism of the Program of Transcendental Philosophy......Page 427
2 The Perspective of Actualizing Freedom......Page 430
3 On the Exposition of the Concept of Freedom in Kant and Hegel and its Ramifications......Page 431
4 Hegel’s Criticism of Practical Formalism......Page 434
4.1 Formalism as Frustration of Actualizing Freedom......Page 436
4.2 Hegel’s Logic of Freedom......Page 437
4.3 Externality as the Unfreedom of Action......Page 438
4.4 Hegel’s Sittlichkeit as Rationalization of the Content......Page 439
Bibliography......Page 443
Chapter 21 Speculative Institutionalism: Hegel’s Legacy for Any Political Economy that Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science......Page 446
1 Speculative Political Economy: What Were the Questions?......Page 447
2 Hegel’s Institutional Theory: A Tentative Reconstruction......Page 450
3 Habit: A Redemptive Repetition......Page 453
4 Corporations: Devices of Conformity......Page 454
5 Hegel and Current Economics: Accepting the Prophet?......Page 455
6 Conclusion: Political Economy of the Future......Page 457
Bibliography......Page 459
1 Introduction......Page 462
2 On the Early History of the Term......Page 464
3 Hegel and the German Tradition of Bildung......Page 466
4 A Note on Sources......Page 469
5 On the Relation Between Bildung and Spirit......Page 470
6 Bildung as the Dialectic of Recognition......Page 471
7 Otherness and Its Importance to Bildung......Page 473
8 Dialectical Negation and Bildung......Page 474
9 Mutual Recognition, Intersubjectivity and the Social Significance of Bildung......Page 475
10 The Historical-Cultural Significance of Bildung: Acculturation and Freedom......Page 477
11 Conclusion......Page 481
Bibliography......Page 484
Part VII Philosophy of World History and History of Philosophy......Page 487
1 On the Tradition of the Lectures......Page 488
2 The Systematic Position of World History......Page 489
3 Types of Historiography: The “Introduction” 1822–1828......Page 493
4 History and Reason: The Introduction 1830/31......Page 495
5 The End of History......Page 499
Bibliography......Page 500
Chapter 24 Freedom and the Logic of History......Page 502
1 Providence, Teleology and Freedom......Page 503
2 Reason, Passion and the Universal......Page 508
3 World History and the State as the Realization of Freedom......Page 513
Bibliography......Page 519
1.1 Establishing History of Philosophy as a Philosophical Discipline......Page 520
2 Problems with Michelet’s Record of Hegel’s Lectures on History of Philosophy......Page 522
3 Hegel’s Introduction to His Lectures on History of Philosophy (28 October 1816, Jena)......Page 524
4 Hegel: Introduction to the History of Philosophy, and its Concept......Page 525
5 This Entails Further Consequences That Hegel Stresses......Page 527
6 Sources of the History of Philosophy......Page 529
7 Philosophy as “Its Epoch Captured in Thought”......Page 532
8 Philosophy, its Distinctive Character, and the Role of the History of Philosophy......Page 534
9 “Gestalt” of Recent German Philosophy in Hegel’s Concept of the History of Philosophy......Page 536
10.1 Freedom of the Human Spirit......Page 539
10.2 Hegel’s Historical-Philosophical Portrait of Kant......Page 540
10.3 Philosophical Idealism as a Distinct Feature of German Classical Philosophical Teachings of Hegel’s Time......Page 541
10.4 “Objective Spirit” and the History of Philosophy......Page 543
11 The Place of History of Philosophy in Hegel’s System......Page 546
12 “Final Result” of the History of Philosophy as Portrayed by Hegel......Page 548
Bibliography......Page 551
Part VIII Hegelianism and Post-Hegelian Thought......Page 553
Chapter 26 Hegel and Recent Analytic Metaphysics......Page 554
1.1 Hegel, Royce, Russell and C. I. Lewis......Page 556
1.2 Hegel, Findlay and Prior......Page 559
2 Hegel’s Idealism as Mediated Actualism......Page 564
3 Conclusion......Page 569
Bibliography......Page 570
Chapter 27 Hegel’s Pragmatism......Page 573
1 Mind and Knowledge in the Cartesian Tradition......Page 575
2 Problems with Cartesianism, 1: The Case of “Experience”......Page 576
3 Problems with Cartesianism, 2: Agency and Externality......Page 579
4 Problems with Cartesianism, 3: Rational Being as Social Achievement......Page 581
5 Yet Hegel Was Not a Pragmatist......Page 585
Bibliography......Page 588
1 Introduction......Page 590
2 From Sellars to the Sellarsians: Rorty, Brandom and McDowell......Page 592
3 The Creation of the Pittsburgh “Neo-Hegelians”......Page 595
4 A Future for Pittsburgh Neo-Hegelianism?......Page 598
Bibliography......Page 600
Appendices......Page 603
The Chronology of Hegel’s Life......Page 604
Hegel’s Philosophical System in His Writings and Lecture Series......Page 606
Conclusion: An Agenda for Future Research......Page 609
Bibliography......Page 612
Name Index......Page 614
Subject Index......Page 617