Idealism and existentialism : Hegel and nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy / Jon Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Jon (Jon Bartley)

Series:

Continuum studies in philosophy.

Continuum studies in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Continental philosophy--History.

Continental philosophy.

Idealism, German--History.

Idealism, German.

Existentialism--History.

Existentialism.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of Continental philosophy is often conceived as being represented by two major schools: German idealism and phenomenology/existentialism. These two schools are frequently juxtaposed so as to highlight their purported radical differences. There is a commonly held view that an abrupt break occurred in the nineteenth century, resulting in a disdainful rejection of idealism in all its forms. This break is often located in the transition from Hegel to Kierkegaard. The history of philosophy in the first half of the nineteenth century has thus been read as a grand confrontation between

Contents:

Hegel and the myth of reason

Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit as a systematic fragment

The architectonic of Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit

Points of contact in the philosophy of religion of Hegel and Schopenhauer

Kierkegaard's criticism of the absence of ethics in Hegel's system

Kierkegaard's criticism of abstraction and his proposed solution: appropriation

Kierkegaard's recurring criticism of Hegel's The good and conscience

Hegel and Nietzsche on the death of tragedy and Greek ethical life

Existentialist ethics

Merleau-Ponty's criticisms of Sartre's theory of freedom

Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on consciousness and bad faith.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-277) and index.

ISBN:

9786612647574

9781282647572

1282647571

9781441104649

144110464X

OCLC:

646068668