Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix Chronology of Hegel’s Life and Work xv
G.W.F. Hegel: An Introduction to His Life and Thought 1Stephen Houlgate
Part I Early Writings 21
1 Religion, Love, and Law: Hegel’s Early Metaphysics of Morals 23Katerina Deligiorgi
Part II Phenomenology of Spirit 45
2 The Project of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit 47John Russon
3 Self-Consciousness, Anti-Cartesianism, and Cognitive Semantics in Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology 68Kenneth R. Westphal
4 Spirit as the “Unconditioned” 91Terry Pinkard
Part III Logic 109
5 Thinking Being: Method in Hegel’s Logic of Being 111Angelica Nuzzo
6 Essence, Refl exion, and Immediacy in Hegel’s Science of Logic 139Stephen Houlgate
7 Conceiving 159John W. Burbidge
Part IV Philosophy of Nature 175
8 Hegel and the Sciences 177Thomas Posch
9 The Transition to Organics: Hegel’s Idea of Life 203Cinzia Ferrini
Part V Philosophy of Subjective Spirit 225
10 Hegel’s Solution to the Mind-Body Problem 227Richard Dien Winfield
11 Hegel’s Philosophy of Language: The Unwritten Volume 243Jere O'Neill Surber
Part VI Philosophy of Right 263
12 Hegel on the Empty Formalism of Kant’s Categorical Imperative 265Sally Sedgwick
13 The Idea of a Hegelian ‘Science’ of Society 281Frederick Neuhouser
14 Hegel’s Political Philosophy 297Allen W. Wood
Part VII Philosophy of History 313
15 “The Ruling Categories of the World”: The Trinity in Hegel’s Philosophy of History and The Rise and Fall of Peoples 315Robert Bernasconi
16 Hegel and Ranke: A Re-examination 332Frederick C. Beiser
Part VIII Aesthetics 351
17 Hegel and the “Historical Deduction” of the Concept of Art 353Allen Speight
18 Soundings: Hegel on Music 369John Sallis
Part IX Philosophy of Religion 385
19 Love, Recognition, Spirit: Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion 387Robert R. Williams
20 Hegel’s Proofs of the Existence of God 414Peter C. Hodgson
Part X History of Philosophy 431
21 Hegel’s Aristotle: Philosophy and Its Time 433Alfredo Ferrarin
22 From Kant’s Highest Good to Hegel’s Absolute Knowing 452Michael Baur
Part XI Hegel and Post-Hegelian Thought 475
23 Hegel and Marx 477Andrew Chitty
24 Kierkegaard and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge 501Jon Stewart
25 Thinking of Nothing: Heidegger’s Criticism of Hegel’s Conception of Negativity 519Daniel O. Dahlstrom
26 Adorno’s Reconception of the Dialectic 537Brian O’Connor
27 Hegel and Pragmatism 556Robert Stern
28 The Analytic Neo-Hegelianism of John McDowell and Robert Brandom 576Paul Redding
29 Différance as Negativity: The Hegelian Remains of Derrida’s Philosophy 594Karin de Boer
30 You Be My Body for Me: Body, Shape, and Plasticity in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit 611Catherine Malabou and Judith Butler
Index 641