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Hegel and the transformation of philosophical critique / William F. Bristow.

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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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