Hegel and the Other

Philip J. Kain

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This volume by Philip J. Kain is one of the most accessibly written books on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit available. Avoiding technical jargon without diluting Hegel's thought, Kain shows the Phenomenology responding to Kant in far more places than are usually recognized. This perspective makes Hegel's text easier to understand. Kain also argues against the traditional understanding of the absolute and touches on Hegel's relation to contemporary feminist and postmodern themes.

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Introduction: Structure and Method of the Phenomenology

1. Consciousness and the Transcendental Deduction

I. Kant's Transcendental Deduction
II. Sense-Certainty
III. Perception
IV. Force and the Understanding

2. Self-Consciousness and the Other

I. Self-Consciousness
II. Lordship and Bondage
III. Theory and the Object
IV. Theory and Power
V. Stoicism and the Flight from Heteronomy
VI. Scepticism and the Attack on the Transcendental Self
VII. Unhappy Consciousness and the Highest Good

3. Reason in the World

Part A. Theoretical Reason

I. Affirmation of Idealism
II. Inner and Outer
III. Physiognomy and Phrenology

Part B. Practical Reason

IV. Pleasure and Necessity
V. The Law of the Heart
VI. Virtue and the Way of the World

Part C. Individuality that Takes Itself to Be Real In and For Itself

VII. The Spiritual Animal Kingdom and Deceit, or the Fact Itself
VIII. Reason as Lawgiver
IX. Reason as Testing Laws

4. Culture and Reality

I. The Transcendental Deduction and Culture
II. The Ethical Order, Women, and Oppression
III. Legal Status and the Emperor
IV. Culture and Estrangement
V. Enlightenment's Attack on Belief
VI. Reason, Revolution, and Terror
VII. Phenomenology or History?
VIII. Morality and the Final Purpose

5. Culture, Religion, and Absolute Knowing

I. Religion
II. Alienation and Estrangement Overcome
III. The Absolute and Its Deduction
IV. A Culturally Relative Absolute
V. Hegel's Ethnocentrism and Racism
VI. Cultural Relativism and Truth

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie moderne
• Philosophie moderne

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791483138
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Hegel and the Other

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Hegel and the Other

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A Study of the Phenomenology of Spirit

Philip J. Kain

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Kain, Philip J., 1943– Hegel and the other : a study of the phenomenology of spirit / Philip J. Kain. p. cm. —(SUNY series in Hegelian studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–7914–6473–3 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 0–7914–6474–1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770–1831. Phänomenologie des Geistes. 2. Spirit. 3. Consciousness. 4. Truth. I. Title. II. Series.

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Contents

Introduction: Structure and Method of thePhenomenology

1. Consciousness and the Transcendental Deduction I. Kant’s Transcendental Deduction II. SenseCertainty III. Perception IV. Force and the Understanding

2. SelfConsciousness and the Other I. SelfConsciousness II. Lordship and Bondage III. Theory and the Object IV. Theory and Power V. Stoicism and the Flight from Heteronomy VI. Scepticism and the Attack on the Transcendental Self VII. Unhappy Consciousness and the Highest Good

3. Reason in the World Part A. Theoretical Reason I. Affirmation of Idealism II. Inner and Outer III. Physiognomy and Phrenology Part B. Practical Reason IV. Pleasure and Necessity V. The Law of the Heart VI. Virtue and the Way of the World

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Part C. Individuality that Takes Itself to Be Real In and For Itself VII. The Spiritual Animal Kingdom and Deceit, or the Fact Itself VIII. Reason as Lawgiver IX. Reason as Testing Laws

4. Culture and Reality I. The Transcendental Deduction and Culture II. The Ethical Order, Women, and Oppression III. Legal Status and the Emperor IV. Culture and Estrangement V. Enlightenment’s Attack on Belief VI. Reason, Revolution, and Terror VII. Phenomenology or History? VIII. Morality and the Final Purpose

5. Culture, Religion, and Absolute Knowing I. Religion II. Alienation and Estrangement Overcome III. The Absolute and Its Deduction IV. A Culturally Relative Absolute V. Hegel’s Ethnocentrism and Racism VI. Cultural Relativism and Truth

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Acknowledgments

would like to thank the following for reading and commenting on earlier I portions of this book: Robert Audi, Calvin Stewart, James Felt, Tom Powers, S. Robert Smith, and especially Don Beggs. I would also like to acknowledge my debt to the late Stanley Moore, in whose seminars during the 1970s I first learned Hegel. Parts of the introduction and chapter 1 first appeared as “The Structure and Method of Hegel’sPhenomenology” inClio27 (1998): 593–614. Parts of chapter 2 first appeared as “SelfConsciousness, the Other, and Hegel’s Dialectic of Recognition: Alternative to a Postmodern Subterfuge” in Philosophy & Social Criticism(SAGE Publications) 24 (1998): 105–126. Parts of chapter 3 first appeared as “Hegel, Reason, and Idealism” inIdealistic Studies27 (1997): 97–112. Other parts of chapter 3 first appeared as “Hegel’s Critique of Kantian Practical Reason” inCanadian Journal of Philosophy28 (1998): 367–412. Parts of the introduction, chapter 3, and chapter 4 first appeared as “Hegel’s Political Theory and Philosophy of History” inClio17 (1988): 345–68. Parts of chapter 4 first appeared as “Hegel, Antigone, and Women” inOwl of Minerva33 (2002): 157–177.

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