In Defense of Reason After Hegel: Why We Are So Wise

by Richard Dien Winfield

Overview

In Defense of Reason After Hegel repudiates the assault on truth pervading public life and the academy by drawing upon arguments pioneered by Hegel. These arguments show how thought can free itself of arbitrary foundations and establish the exclusive validity of self-determination in knowing, conduct, and aesthetic worth. Wide ranging in scope and radically subverting the reigning orthodoxies in contemporary culture, the essays of In Defense of Reason After Hegel forge a path for restoring the authority of rational autonomy in theory and practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781839982446
Publisher:	Anthem Press
Publication date:	03/08/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	494 KB

About the Author

Richard Dien Winfield is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, where he has taught since 1982. He is the author of 21 other books on philosophy and one book on political policy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Why We Are So Wise: Hegelian Reflections on whether Reason Can Be Enhanced; 2. Self-Determination in Logic and Reality; 3. Hegel’s Overcoming of the Overcoming of Metaphysics; 4. On Contradiction: Hegel versus Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus, and Kant; 5. Overcoming Actuality: How Hegel Frees Us from the Prison of Modality; 6. Time and Reason; 7. Hegel and the Problem of Consciousness; 8. Hegel and the Origin of Language; 9. The Logic of Right; 10. A Dream Deferred: From the US Constitution to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; 11. World Spirit on the Campaign Trail in Georgia: Can the Philosophy of Right Be a Guide to Social Reform?; 12. The Classical Nude and the Limits of Sculpture; Bibliography; Index.