Hegel on Philosophy in History
Cambridge University Press, 1/26/2017
EAN 9781107093416, ISBN10: 1107093414
Hardcover, 276 pages, 23.5 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
In this volume honouring Robert Pippin, prominent philosophers such as John McDowell, Slavoj Žižek, Jonathan Lear, and Axel Honneth explore Hegel's proposals concerning the historical character of philosophy. Hegelian doctrines discussed include the purported end of art, Hegel's view of human history, including the history of philosophy as the history of freedom (or autonomy), and the nature of self-consciousness as realized in narrative or in action. Hegel scholars Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Sally Sedgwick, Terry Pinkard, and Paul Redding attempt to vindicate some of Hegel's claims concerning historical philosophical progress, while others such as Robert Stern, Christoph Menke, and Jay Bernstein suggest that Hegel either did not conceive of philosophy as progressing unidirectionally or did not make good on his claims to progress: perhaps we should still be Aristotelians in ethics, or perhaps we are still torn between sensibility and reason, or between individuality and social norms. Perhaps capitalism has exacerbated such problems.
Part I. Philosophy and History in Hegel
1. Why does it matter for Hegel that Geist has a history? John McDowell
2. Remarks on history, contingency, and necessity in Hegel's Science of Logic Sally Sedgwick
3. Philosophy and the stream of cultural history Ludwig Siep
Part II. Aristotelian Master and Stoic Slave
4. From epistemic incorporation to cognitive transformation Paul Redding
5. Freedom, norms, and nature in Hegel
Self-Legislation or Self-Realization Robert Stern
6. The form of self-consciousness Terry Pinkard
7. Hegel on objects as subjects Rolf-Peter Horstmann
8. The historical turn and late modernity Karl Ameriks
Part III. Hegel and After
9. Autonomy and liberation
the historicity of freedom Christoph Menke
10. Three, not two, concepts of liberty
a proposal to enlarge our moral self-understanding Axel Honneth
11. 'Our amphibian problem'
nature in history in Adorno's Hegelian Critique of Hegel Jay Bernstein
12. Comedy between the ugly and the sublime Slavoj Žižek
13. The Freudian sabbath Jonathan Lear
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