Hegel's Century
Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution

This book shows how Hegel's concepts of alienation and recognition constituted the central motifs of philosophy in the 19th century.

Jon Stewart (Author)

9781316519981, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 October 2021

344 pages
23.6 x 15.8 x 2.4 cm, 0.64 kg

'Stewart's book is a worthy choice as the primary teaching manual for an advanced undergraduate course in the history of 19th-century thought.' Nahum Brown, The Philosophical Quarterly

The remarkable lectures that Hegel gave in Berlin in the 1820s generated an exciting intellectual atmosphere which lasted for decades. From the 1830s, many students flocked to Berlin to study with people who had studied with Hegel, and both his original students, such as Feuerbach and Bauer, and later arrivals including Kierkegaard, Engels, Bakunin, and Marx, evolved into leading nineteenth-century thinkers. Jon Stewart's panoramic study of Hegel's deep influence upon the nineteenth century in turn reveals what that century contributed to the wider history of philosophy. It shows how Hegel's notions of 'alienation' and 'recognition' became the central motifs for the era's thinking; how these concepts spilled over into other fields – like religion, politics, literature, and drama; and how they created a cultural phenomenon so rich and pervasive that it can truly be called 'Hegel's century.' This book is required reading for historians of ideas as well as of philosophy.

Introduction
Part I. The Beginning: 1. Hegel's Account of Alienation in the Phenomenology of Spirit
2. Hegel's Account of Christianity and its Origins in the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion and Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Part II. The First Generation: 3. Heine, Alienation and Political Revolution
4. Feuerbach's Doctrine of the Humanity of the Divine in The Essence of Christianity
5. Bruno Bauer's Criticism of Christianity
Part III. The Second Generation: 6. Marx's View of Religious and Political Liberation
7. Kierkegaard's Analysis of the Forms of Despair and Alienation
8. Dostoevsky's Criticism of Modern Rationalism and Materialism
9. Bakunin's Theory of Anarchy
10. Engels' Criticism of Feuerbach and Classical German Philosophy
11. Hegel's Long Shadow in the History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF]