Hegel's Discovery of the Philosophy of Spirit: Autonomy, Alienation, and the Ethical Life: The Jena Lectures 1802-1806

ISBN-13: 9781349453771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 253 str.

P. Ifergan

Opis

This exploration of Hegel's critique of the individualistic ethos of modernity and the genesis of his alternative vision traces the conceptual schemes Hegel experimented with to show how he settled on the concepts of 'ethical life' (Sittlichkeit) and Spirit as the means for overcoming subjectivity and domination.

Spis treści

Abbreviations Introduction 1. On the Origins of Hegel's Philosophical Motivation 2. The First Systematic Attempt to Conceptualize the Critique of Culture 3. 'The Philosophy of Spirit': toward a Schematic Account of Self-Consciousness 4. Jena Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit (1805/1806) References Index

O autorze

Pini Ifergan teaches philosophy at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Author of The Tragedy in Ethical Life: Hegel's Philosophy and the Spirit of Modernity (2010), he has also edited, annotated, and written interpretive introductions for Hebrew translations of several philosophical classics, including Hegel's Philosophy of Right (2011) and Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate (2005); and Kant's Conflict of the Faculties (2007). He is currently working on a book about the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg.