Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
A Critical Guide

This collection of essays demonstrates the need for contemporary philosophers to engage with Hegel.

Dean Moyar (Edited by), Michael Quante (Edited by)

9780521874540, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 May 2008

260 pages
23.5 x 16 x 2 cm, 0.56 kg

Review of the hardback: '… the Phenomenology demands and indeed has elicited thoughtful interlocutors who must combine Hegel's own qualities - at once philosophically rigorous and focused, and also imaginative and comprehensive. The twelve contributors to Moyar and Quante's excellent volume are readers of just this variety. They wrestle with small portions of Hegel's challenging text and show how Hegel's insights can help advance and even transform our thinking about traditional philosophical problems … this volume is a considerable contribution to the ever-growing literature on Hegel's Phenomenology.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is a work with few equals in systematic integrity, philosophical originality and historical influence. This collection of essays, contributed by leading Hegel scholars, examines all aspects of the work, from its argumentative strategies to its continuing relevance to philosophical debates. The collection combines close analysis with wide-ranging coverage of the text, and also traces connections with debates extending beyond Hegel scholarship, including issues in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, ethics, and philosophy of religion. In showing clearly that we have not yet exhausted the Phenomenology's insights, it demonstrates the need for contemporary philosophers to engage with Hegel.

Preface
1. Substance, subject, system: the justification of science in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Dietmar H. Heidemann
2. 'Science of the phenomenology of spirit': Hegel's program and its implementation Hans-Friedrich Fulda
3. The Phenomenology of Spirit as a 'transcendentalistic' argument for a monistic ontology Rolf-Peter Horstmann
4. Sense certainty and the 'this-such' Willem A. deVries
5. From desire to recognition: Hegel's account of human sociality Alex Honneth
6. 'Reason (...) apprehended irrationally': Hegel's critique of observing reason Michael Quante
7. What is a 'shape of spirit?' Terry Pinkard
8. Ethical life, morality, and the role of spirit in the Phenomenology Will Dudley
9. Self-completing alienation: Hegel's argument of transparent conditions of free agency Dean Moyar
10. Practical reason and spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Ludwig Siep
11. Religion and demythologization in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Thomas A. Lewis
12. A 'logic of experience' as 'absolute knowledge': on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Roger B. Pippin.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], Phenomenology & Existentialism [HPCF3], History of Western philosophy [HPC]