Hegel and Ancient Philosophy

Glenn Alexander Magee is Professor of Philosophy at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. He is the author of Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (2001) and The Hegel Dictionary (2011), as well as editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism (2016). He was Vice President of the Hegel Society of America from 2014 to 2016.

• Editor’s Introduction Glenn Alexander Magee 1. Xenophanes and Pre-Socratic Thought: A Critical Perspective on Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy Robert Metcalf2. On the Speculative Significance of Anaxagoras in Hegel’s Lectures Andrew Davis3. Hegel on the Trial of Socrates and the End of Aesthetic Democracy Paul Wilford4. How Hegel Read the Platonic Dialogues Jere Surber5. The Platonic Dimension of Hegel’s System Lawrence Bruce-Robertson6. Mens Divina as Lebendigkeit: Hegel's Interpretation of Metaphysics Andy German7. The Way Past the Stripping Argument in Hegel and Aristotle Joshua Mendelsohn 8. The Aristotelian Metaphysics of Hegel’s ‘Soul’ Allegra de Laurentiis9. Parts and Souls Antón Barba-Kay10. On Contradiction: Hegel versus Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus, and Kant Richard Dien Winfield11. On Theory and Praxis: Hegel’s Reformulation of an Aristotelian Distinction Federico Orsini12. Ethical Life, Politics, and the Actualization of Freedom: Hegel and Aristotle’s Politics Angelica Nuzzo13. Hegel’s Critique of Stoicism Bernardo Ferro

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