Hegel and the other : a study of the phenomenology of spirit / Philip J. Kain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kain, Philip J., 1943-

Series:

SUNY series in Hegelian studies.

SUNY series in Hegelian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Consciousness.

Spirit.

Truth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume by Philip J. Kain is one of the most accessibly written books on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit available. Avoiding technical jargon without diluting Hegel's thought, Kain shows the Phenomenology responding to Kant in far more places than are usually recognized. This perspective makes Hegel's text easier to understand. Kain also argues against the traditional understanding of the absolute and touches on Hegel's relation to contemporary feminist and postmodern themes.

Contents:

Consciousness and the transcendental deduction

Kant's transcendental deduction

Sense-certainty

Perception

Force and the understanding

Self-consciousness and the other

Self-consciousness

Lordship and bondage

Theory and the object

Theory and power

Stoicism and the flight from heteronomy

Scepticism and the attack on the transcendental self

Unhappy consciousness and the highest good

Reason in the world

Part A. Theoretical reason

Affirmation of idealism

Inner and outer

Physiognomy and phrenology

Part B. Practical reason

Pleasure and necessity

The law of the heart

Virtue and the way of the world

Individuality which takes itself to be real in and for itself

The spiritual animal kingdom and deceit, or the fact itself

Reason as lawgiver

Reason as testing laws

Culture and reality

The transcendental deduction and culture

The ethical order, women, and oppression

Legal status and the emperor

Culture and estrangement

Enlightenment's attack on belief

Reason, revolution, and terror

Phenomenology or history?

Morality and the final purpose

Culture, religion, and absolute knowing

Religion

Alienation and estrangement overcome

The absolute and its deduction

A culturally relative absolute

Hegel's ethnocentrism and racism

Cultural relativism and truth.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-308) and index.

ISBN:

9780791483138

0791483134

9781423748700

1423748700

OCLC:

461442109