Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit : a critical rethinking in seventeen lectures / Richard Dien Winfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winfield, Richard Dien, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. Phänomenologie des Geistes.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Spirit.

Consciousness.

Truth.

Physical Description:

ix, 395 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]

Summary:

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures provides a clear and philosophically engaging investigation of Hegel's first masterpiece, perhaps the most revolutionary work of modern philosophy. This book guides the reader on an intellectual adventure that takes up Hegel's revolutionary strategy of paving the way for doing philosophy without presuppositions by first engaging in a phenomenological investigation of knowing as it appears. That preliminary investigation observes how the prevailing view of knowing, which condemns cognition to operating with presuppositions proves unable to justify its own knowledge claims and ends up undermining the distinction between knowing and its object on which that view depends. Unlike other studies of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, this book rethinks the entire argument with sustained attention to the project that gives the work its revolutionary significance. Free of unnecessary jargon and always focusing on clearly unraveling the argument in its entirety, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures will be indispensable to undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy, Hegel scholars, and anyone interested in tackling the radical project of doing philosophy without foundations. Book jacket.

Contents:

Lecture 1: introduction

Lecture 2: sense-certainty

Lecture 3: perception

Lecture 4: understanding

Lecture 5: independence and dependence of self-consciousness

Lecture 6: the freedom of self-consciousness: stoicism, skepticism, and the unhappy consciousness

Lecture 7: reason as observation of nature

Lecture 8: reason as observation of self-consciousness

Lecture 9: reason as self-actualization of self-consciousness

Lecture 10: reason as individuality real in and for itself

Lecture 11: spirit and the ethical order

Lecture 12: self-alienated spirit

Lecture 13: the enlightenment to abosulte freedom and terror

Lecture 14: morality

Lecture 15: from natural religion to religion in the form of art

Lecture 16: revealed religion

Lecture 17: absolute knowing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442223370

1442223375

OCLC:

846912000