In this study of Hegel's philosophy, Brinkmann undertakes to defend Hegel's claim to objective knowledge by bringing out the transcendental strategy underlying Hegel's argument in the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Logic. Hegel's metaphysical commitments are shown to become moot through this transcendental reading. Starting with a survey of current debates about the possibility of objective knowledge, the book next turns to the original formulation of the transcendental argument in favor of a priori knowledge in Kant's First Critique. Through a close reading of Kant's...

Hegel's Encyclopaedia Logic constitutes the foundation of the system of philosophy presented in his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Together with his Science of Logic, it contains the most explicit formulation of his enduringly influential dialectical method and of the categorical system underlying his thought. It offers a more compact presentation of his dialectical method than is found elsewhere, and also incorporates changes that he would have made to the second edition of the Science of Logic if he had lived to do so. This volume presents it in a new translation with a...

Schuberts Liederzyklus Die Winterreise stellt zusammen mit dem Zyklus Die Schöne Müllerin einen absoluten Höhepunkt des Liedschaffens der Romantik dar - und darüber hinaus des Liedschaffens überhaupt. Auf die Entwicklung des Klaviers als Instrument und den Wandel seiner Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten wird in diesem Werk ein besonderes Augenmerk gelegt.