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“Each volume of this series of companios to major philosophers contains
speacially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substancial bibliography,
and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation
such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker.
Few thinkers are more controversial in the history of philosophy tha Hegel. He has been dismissed as an charlatan
and obscurantis, but also praised as one of the greatest thinkers in modern philosophy. No one interested in philosophy
can afford to ignore him. This volume provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Hegel’s output.
It considers all the major aspects of his work: epistemology, logic, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics,
philosophy of history, philosophy of religion. Special attention is devoted to problems in the interpretation of
Hegel: the unity of the Phenomenology of Spirit; the value of the dialectical method; the status of his logic;
the nature of his politics. A final group of chapters trats Hegel’s complex historical legacy: the development
of Hegelianism ant its growth into a left - and a right - wing school; the relation of Hegel and Marx; and the
subtle connections between Hegel and contemporany analytic philosophy.
New readers and non-specialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Hegel currently in print.
Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Hegel.”
CONTENTS:
List of Contributors
Introduction: Hegel and the problem of metaphysics
Frederick C. Beiser
1. Hegel’intellectual development to 1807
H. S. Harris
2. You Can’t Get There from Here: Transition problems in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Robert Pippin
3. Hegel’s conception of logic
John Burbidge
4. Heagel’s idealism: The logic of conceptuality - Thomas E. Wartenberg
5. Hegel’s dialectical method
Michael Forster
6. Thought and being: Hegel’s critique of Kant’s theoretical philosophy
Paul Guyer
7. Hegel’s ethics
Allen Wood
8. The basic context and structure of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Kenneth Westphal
9.Hegel’s historicism
Frederick C. Beiser
10. Hegel on religion and philosophy
Laurence Dickey
11. Hegel’s aesthetics: An overview
Robert Wicks
12. Transformations of Hegelianism, 1805-1846
John Toews
13. Hegel and Marxism
Allen Wood
14. Hegel and analytic philosophy
Peter Hylton
Bibliography
Chronology
Index
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