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Hegel and the transformation of philosophical critique / William F. Bristow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bristow, William F., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reason--History.
- Reason.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der reinen Vernunft.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit. Hegel describes the method of this work as a 'way of despair', meaning thereby that the reader who undertakes its inquiry must be open to the experience of self-loss through it. Whereas the existential dimension of Hegel's work has often been either ignored or regarded as romantic ornamentation, Bristow argues that it belongscentrally to Hegel's attempt to fulfil a demanding epistemological ambition. With his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant expressed a n
- Contents:
- Hegel's objection
- Is Kant's idealism subjective?
- An ambiguity in 'subjectivism'
- The epistemological problem
- The transcendental deduction of the categories and subjectivism
- Are Kant's categories subjective?
- Hegel's suspicion : Kantian critique and subjectivism
- What is kantian philosophical criticism?
- Hegel's suspicion : initial formulation
- A shallow suspicion?
- Deepening the suspicion : criticism, autonomy, and subjectivism
- Directions of response
- Critique and suspicion : unmasking the critical philosophy
- Hegel's transformation of critique
- The rejection of Kantian critique : philosophy, skepticism, and the recovery of the ancient idea
- Hegel's epistemology in the shadow of Schelling
- Schulze's skepticism contra the critical philosophy
- Ancient versus modern skepticism : Hegel's difference
- Against the modern conception of rational cognition
- Against modern self-certainty
- The history of skepticism: decline into dogmatism
- Philosophy counter culture and time
- The return to Kantian critique : recognizing the rights of ordinary consciousness
- Two conceptions of philosophical critique
- The return to critique and the relation of philosophy to its history
- The rights of ordinary consciousness and the need for critique
- Critique as the realization of the science of metaphysics
- Hegel's self-transformational criticism
- Presuppositionless philosophy
- The problem of the criterion
- Self-transformational criticism
- The problem of the we'
- Our transformation
- Hegel's alternative model : critical transformation as self-realization.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-964527-2
- 1-281-15478-4
- 9786611154783
- 0-19-153741-1
- 1-4356-2407-6
- OCLC:
- 191826603
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