Hegel and the symbolic mediation of spirit / Kathleen Dow Magnus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magnus, Kathleen Dow, 1967-

Series:

SUNY series in Hegelian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Spirit--History--19th century.

Spirit.

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 291 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2001]

Contents:

I. Derrida's provocation 1

A. Metaphor and philosophy 4

B. Spirit's use of the sign 12

II. The need to consider the symbolic 25

A. Other commentators on Hegel and the symbol 25

B. Spirit's symbolic self-determination in the imagination, art, and religion 27

III. Hegel's idea of spirit 30

A. Neither right nor left 30

B. Spirit's identity and difference 33

Chapter 1 The Symbol and the Sign in Hegel's Philosophy 37

A. The symbol and the sign in the Hegelian text 38

B. Twentieth-century understandings of the symbol and the sign 48

II. Can philosophy conceive the symbolic? 52

A. Conscious symbolism of the comparative type 53

B. Metaphor in philosophical aesthetics 60

Chapter 2 The Means to Theoretical Self-Determination 69

I. The rise of the symbol and sign-making capacities (Or, does spirit consume the sensuous?) 73

A. Intuition (Anschauung) 75

B. Representation (Vorstellung) 78

II. From symbol to sign: a different kind of difference (Or, is the sign a transparent means of spirit?) 83

A. The imagination's creation of symbols and signs 85

B. The importance of the sign and the symbol 89

III. Signs of memory (Gedachtnis) and language (Sprache) (Or, how does the intelligence determine the "other"?) 94

A. Names, meaning, and existence 96

B. The symbol and the sign as elements of language 98

IV. The loss of meaning and the transition to thought (Or, how can spirit make itself be?) 101

A. Mechanical memory 102

B. Spirit's theoretical determination 105

Chapter 3 Spirit's Symbolic Self-Presentation in Art 111

I. Art in general 113

A. Art as the presentation of spirit 113

B. Art as symbolic 114

C. Art as necessary and dissolving 118

II. The symbolic form of art 120

A. Symbolic art's lack with respect to art's ideal 120

B. The different forms of symbolic art 122

C. The importance of these symbolic forms 132

III. The classical form of art 134

A. The supersession of symbolic art's deficiencies 134

B. Symbolic elements of classical art 139

IV. The romantic form of art 146

A. Romantic art as a spiritual advance 146

B. Symbolic elements of romantic art 153

V. The "end" of art? 162

A. Art's dissolution 162

B. Art's (symbolic) absoluteness 164

Chapter 4 Spirit's Symbolic Self-Representation in Religion 169

I. Religious consciousness as symbolic 173

A. Pre-representational forms of religious consciousness 173

B. Religious representation and the symbolic 175

II. Symbolic elements of finite religions 181

A. Indian religion, the religion of imagination (Phantasie) 183

B. Egyptian religion, the religion of riddles (Ratsel) 187

C. Greek religion, the religion of beauty (Schonheit) 190

D. Jewish religion, the religion of sublimity (Erhabenheit) 193

III. Symbolic elements of absolute religion 197

A. Absolute versus finite religions 197

B. The Christian conception of the trinity 200

C. The Christian conception of the incarnation 203

D. Community, tradition, and interpretation 205

IV. The human, the divine, and the symbolic 209

A. The need for the symbolic 209

B. The unity of the human and the divine 213

Chapter 5 The Process of Philosophy and Spirit's Symbolic Mediation 217

I. Philosophy and the symbol 218

A. The transparency of thought: philosophy, logic, and truth 218

B. The double meaning of meaning 222

II. Philosophy in relation to art and religion 226

A. Philosophy's comprehension of art and religion 226

B. Spirit's need to be in an other form 228

III. Hegel's idea of spirit 234

A. Genuine self-determination 234

B. The process is the result 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-287) and index.

ISBN:

0791450457

0791450465

OCLC:

45209101