Hegel's Idealism
The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness

Robert B. Pippin (Author)

9780521379236, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 February 1989

340 pages
23.1 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.5 kg

'In the history of Hegel interpretation this will (I hope) prove to be a very influential book. it should forever put paid to the myth of Hegel's speculative philosophy as a direct return to the high rationalist tradition which Kant condemned as 'dogmatic' … This achievement makes Pippin's book a major event in the story of our effort to understand Hegel.' H. S. Harris, York University, Toronto

This is the most important book on Hegel to have appeared in the past ten years. Robert Pippin offers a completely new interpretation of Hegel's idealism, which focuses on Hegel's appropriation and development of kant's theoretical project. Hegel is presented neither as a precritical metaphysician nor as a social theorist, but as a critical philosopher whose disagreements with Kant, especially on the issue of intuitions, enrich the idealist arguments against empiricism, realism and naturalism. In the face of the dismissal of absolute idealism as either unintelligible or implausible, Pippin explains and defends an original account of the philosophical basis for Hegel's claims about the historical and social nature of selfconsciousness, and so of knowledge itself.

Acknowledgments
Primary texts abbreviations
Part I. The Idealist Background: 1. Introduction
2. Kantian and Hegelian idealism
3. Fichte's contribution
4. The Jena formulations
Part II. The Phenomenology of Idealism: 5. Skepticism, knowledge, and thruth in the Jena phenomenology
6. Overcoming consciousness
7. satisfying self-consciousness
Part III. Idealist Logic: 8. Objective logic
9. Reflected being
10. Hegel's idea
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD]