The philosophy of Hegel / Allen Speight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Speight, Allen, author.

Series:

Continental European philosophy.

Continental European philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 166 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Acumen Publishing, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Few philosophers can induce as much puzzlement among students as Hegel. His works are notoriously dense and make very few concessions for a readership unfamiliar with his systematic view of the world. Allen Speight’s introduction to Hegel’s philosophy takes a chronological perspective on the development of Hegel’s system. In this way some of the most important questions in Hegelian scholarship are illuminated by examining in their respective contexts works such as the Phenomenology and the Logic. Speight begins with the young Hegel and his writings prior to the Phenomenology focusing on the notion of positivity and how Hegel’s social, economic and religious concerns became linked to systematic and logical ones. He then examines the Phenomenology in detail, including its treatment of scepticism, the problem of immediacy, the transition from “consciousness” to “self-consciousness”, and the emergence of the social and historical category of “Spirit”. The following chapters explore the Logic, paying particular attention to a number of vexed issues associated with Hegel’s claims to systematicity and the relation between the categories of Hegel’s logic and nature or spirit (Geist). The final chapters discuss Hegel’s ethical and political thought and the three elements of his notion of “absolute spirit”: art, religion and philosophy, as well as the importance of history to his philosophical approach as a whole.

Contents:

Introduction

German idealism and the young Hegel

The Phenomenology of spirit

The Logic and Hegel's system

Ethics and politics

Hegel and the narrative task of history

Art, aesthetics and literary theory

Religion and philosophy.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-160) and index.

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ISBN:

1-317-49369-9

1-317-49370-2

1-315-71202-4

1-282-94718-4

9786612947186

1-84465-380-3

9781315712024

OCLC:

958110042