Companion to Hegel

Stephen Houlgate is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics (1986), An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History (1991, 2005) and The Opening of Hegel’s Logic: From Being to Infinity (2006), and his edited volumes include Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature (1998), The Hegel Reader (1998), and G.W.F. Hegel: Outlines of the Philosophy of Right (2008). He has served as Vice President and President of the Hegel Society of America and is a former editor of the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. Michael Baur is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. He is Secretary of the Hegel Society of America and has published widely on phenomenology, critical theory, philosophy of law, and nineteenth-century continental philosophy, and on thinkers including Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Aristotle, and Aquinas.

• Notes on Contributors ixChronology of Hegel’s Life and Work xvG.W.F. Hegel: An Introduction to His Life and Thought 1Stephen HoulgatePart I Early Writings 211 Religion, Love, and Law: Hegel’s Early Metaphysics of Morals 23Katerina DeligiorgiPart II Phenomenology of Spirit 452 The Project of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit 47John Russon3 Self-Consciousness, Anti-Cartesianism, and Cognitive Semantics in Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology 68Kenneth R. Westphal4 Spirit as the “Unconditioned” 91Terry PinkardPart III Logic 1095 Thinking Being: Method in Hegel’s Logic of Being 111Angelica Nuzzo6 Essence, Refl exion, and Immediacy in Hegel’s Science of Logic 139Stephen Houlgate7 Conceiving 159John W. BurbidgePart IV Philosophy of Nature 1758 Hegel and the Sciences 177Thomas Posch9 The Transition to Organics: Hegel’s Idea of Life 203Cinzia FerriniPart V Philosophy of Subjective Spirit 22510 Hegel’s Solution to the Mind-Body Problem 227Richard Dien Winfield11 Hegel’s Philosophy of Language: The Unwritten Volume 243Jere O’Neill SurberPart VI Philosophy of Right 26312 Hegel on the Empty Formalism of Kant’s Categorical Imperative 265Sally Sedgwick13 The Idea of a Hegelian ‘Science’ of Society 281Frederick Neuhouser14 Hegel’s Political Philosophy 297Allen W. WoodPart VII Philosophy of History 31315 “The Ruling Categories of the World”: The Trinity in Hegel’s Philosophy of History and The Rise and Fall of Peoples 315Robert Bernasconi16 Hegel and Ranke: A Re-examination 332Frederick C. BeiserPart VIII Aesthetics 35117 Hegel and the “Historical Deduction” of the Concept of Art 353Allen Speight18 Soundings: Hegel on Music 369John SallisPart IX Philosophy of Religion 38519 Love, Recognition, Spirit: Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion 387Robert R. Williams20 Hegel’s Proofs of the Existence of God 414Peter C. HodgsonPart X History of Philosophy 43121 Hegel’s Aristotle: Philosophy and Its Time 433Alfredo Ferrarin22 From Kant’s Highest Good to Hegel’s Absolute Knowing 452Michael BaurPart XI Hegel and Post-Hegelian Thought 47523 Hegel and Marx 477Andrew Chitty24 Kierkegaard and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge 501Jon Stewart25 Thinking of Nothing: Heidegger’s Criticism of Hegel’s Conception of Negativity 519Daniel O. Dahlstrom26 Adorno’s Reconception of the Dialectic 537Brian O’Connor27 Hegel and Pragmatism 556Robert Stern28 The Analytic Neo-Hegelianism of John McDowell and Robert Brandom 576Paul Redding29 Différance as Negativity: The Hegelian Remains of Derrida’s Philosophy 594Karin de Boer30 You Be My Body for Me: Body, Shape, and Plasticity in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit 611Catherine Malabou and Judith ButlerIndex 641

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