A Companion to Hegel

This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays that cover the whole range of Hegel s mature thought and his lasting influence. A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophers Essays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most up-to-date Hegel research Contributions are drawn from across the world and from a wide variety of philosophical approaches and traditions Examines Hegel s influence on a range of thinkers, from Kierkegaard and Marx to Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida Begins with a chronology of Hegel s life and work and is then split into sections covering topics such as Philosophy of Nature, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Religion

This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edgeessays that cover the whole range of Hegel's mature thoughtand his lasting influence.* A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modernphilosophers* Essays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the mostup-to-date Hegel research* Contributions are drawn from across the world and from a widevariety of philosophical approaches and traditions* Examines Hegel's influence on a range of thinkers, fromKierkegaard and Marx to Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida* Begins with a chronology of Hegel's life and work and isthen split into sections covering topics such as Philosophy ofNature, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Religion

Notes on Contributors ixChronology of Hegel's Life and Work xvG.W.F. Hegel: An Introduction to His Life and Thought 1Stephen HoulgatePart I Early Writings 211 Religion, Love, and Law: Hegel's Early Metaphysics of Morals 23Katerina DeligiorgiPart II Phenomenology of Spirit 452 The Project of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 47John Russon3 Self-Consciousness, Anti-Cartesianism, and Cognitive Semantics in Hegel's 1807 Phenomenology 68Kenneth R. Westphal4 Spirit as the "Unconditioned" 91Terry PinkardPart III Logic 1095 Thinking Being: Method in Hegel's Logic of Being 111Angelica Nuzzo6 Essence, Refl exion, and Immediacy in Hegel's Science of Logic 139Stephen Houlgate7 Conceiving 159John W. BurbidgePart IV Philosophy of Nature 1758 Hegel and the Sciences 177Thomas Posch9 The Transition to Organics: Hegel's Idea of Life 203Cinzia FerriniPart V Philosophy of Subjective Spirit 22510 Hegel's Solution to the Mind-Body Problem 227Richard Dien Winfield11 Hegel's Philosophy of Language: The Unwritten Volume 243Jere O'Neill SurberPart VI Philosophy of Right 26312 Hegel on the Empty Formalism of Kant's Categorical Imperative 265Sally Sedgwick13 The Idea of a Hegelian 'Science' of Society 281Frederick Neuhouser14 Hegel's Political Philosophy 297Allen W. WoodPart VII Philosophy of History 31315 "The Ruling Categories of the World": The Trinity in Hegel's Philosophy of History and The Rise and Fall of Peoples 315Robert Bernasconi16 Hegel and Ranke: A Re-examination 332Frederick C. BeiserPart VIII Aesthetics 35117 Hegel and the "Historical Deduction" of the Concept of Art 353Allen Speight18 Soundings: Hegel on Music 369John SallisPart IX Philosophy of Religion 38519 Love, Recognition, Spirit: Hegel's Philosophy of Religion 387Robert R. Williams20 Hegel's Proofs of the Existence of God 414Peter C. HodgsonPart X History of Philosophy 43121 Hegel's Aristotle: Philosophy and Its Time 433Alfredo Ferrarin22 From Kant's Highest Good to Hegel's Absolute Knowing 452Michael BaurPart XI Hegel and Post-Hegelian Thought 47523 Hegel and Marx 477Andrew Chitty24 Kierkegaard and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge 501Jon Stewart25 Thinking of Nothing: Heidegger's Criticism of Hegel's Conception of Negativity 519Daniel O. Dahlstrom26 Adorno's Reconception of the Dialectic 537Brian O'Connor27 Hegel and Pragmatism 556Robert Stern28 The Analytic Neo-Hegelianism of John McDowell and Robert Brandom 576Paul Redding29 Différance as Negativity: The Hegelian Remains of Derrida's Philosophy 594Karin de Boer30 You Be My Body for Me: Body, Shape, and Plasticity in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 611Catherine Malabou and Judith ButlerIndex 641