Identity and Difference

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Identity and difference (or sameness and otherness) are contrasting but interrelated terms that have played an explicit role in the development of Western philosophy at least since Plato wrote the Sophist. As Plato pointed out then, and Hegel reiterated more recently in his Science of Logic, the proper comprehension of these terms, and particularly of their interrelation, plays a fundamental role in shaping our conception of philosophical reason itself. The contributors in this book examine Hegel's treatment of these terms, and the role they play in structuring his philosophical system as a whole and also in shaping his conception of dialectical reasoning.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Philip T. Grier

Part 1. Identity and Difference in the Science of Logic

1. Identity, Difference, and the Logic of Otherness
William Maker

2. Double Transition, Dialectic, and Recognition
Robert R. Williams

3. Identity as a Process of Self-Determination in Hegel’s Logic
Christopher Yeomans

4. Identity and Difference, Thought and Being
Martin J. De Nys

Part 2. Identity and Difference in the Philosophy of Mind

5. Identity, Difference, and the Unity of Mind: Reflections on Hegel’s Determination of Psyche, Consciousness, and Intelligence
Richard Dien Winfield

Part 3. Identities and Differences: Peoples, Genders, and Nations

6. Changing Identities: Dialectical Separations and Resisting Barriers
Angelica Nuzzo

7. Hegel’s Conception of an International “We”
Andrew Buchwalter

8. The Power of Particularities: Gender and Nation in the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Philosophy of Right
Patricia Anne Simpson

9. The Return of Africa: Hegel and the Question of the Racial Identity of the Egyptians
Robert Bernasconi

Part 4. Identity and Difference in the Philosophy of Right

10. Identity and Difference in Hegel’s Model of Ethical Normativity
Erin E. Flynn

11. Political Identity and the Dynamics of Accountability in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Patriotism and Trust in the Modern State
Jason J. Howard

12. Substantial Freedom as Identity of Rights and Duties
Maria G. Kowalski

List of Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Philosophy

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
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• EAN13: 9780791479681
• Langue: English
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Identity and Difference

STUDIES IN HEGEL’S LOGIC, PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRIT, AND POLITICS

Philip T. Grier

I D E N T I T Y A N D D I F F E R E N C E

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Identity and Difference

Studies in Hegel’s Logic, Philosophy of Spirit, and Politics

E D I T E D B Y P H I L I P T. G R I E R

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Identity and difference : studies in Hegel’s logic, philosophy of spirit, and politics / edited by Philip T. Grier. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7167-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770–1831. I. Grier, Philip T., 1942–

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Acknowledgments Introduction Philip T. Grier

C O N T E N T S

Part 1. Identity and Difference in theScience of Logic

Chapter 1. Identity, Difference, and the Logic of Otherness William Maker Chapter 2. Double Transition, Dialectic, and Recognition Robert R.Williams Chapter 3. Identity as a Process of Self-Determination in Hegel’sLogic ChristopherYeomans Chapter 4. Identity and Difference, Thought and Being Martin J. De Nys

Part 2. Identity and Difference in thePhilosophy of Mind

Chapter 5. Identity, Difference, and the Unity of Mind: Reflections on Hegel’s Determination of Psyche, Consciousness, and Intelligence Richard DienWinfield

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Part 3. Identities and Differences: Peoples, Genders, and Nations

Chapter 6. Changing Identities: Dialectical Separations and Resisting Barriers Angelica Nuzzo

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Chapter 8. The Power of Particularities: Gender and Nation in thePhenomenology of Spiritand thePhilosophy of Right Patricia Anne Simpson

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Chapter 9. The Return of Africa: Hegel and the Question of the Racial Identity of the Egyptians Robert Bernasconi

Chapter 11. Political Identity and the Dynamics of Accountability in Hegel’sPhilosophy of Right: Patriotism and Trust in the Modern State Jason J. Howard

Chapter 10. Identity and Difference in Hegel’s Model of Ethical Normativity Erin E. Flynn

Chapter 12. Substantial Freedom as Identity of Rights and Duties Maria G. Kowalski

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Contents

List of Contributors Index

Part 4. Identity and Difference in thePhilosophy of Right

Chapter 7. Hegel’s Conception of an International “We” Andrew Buchwalter

A C K N OW L E D G M E N T S

The original versions of the chapters collected in this book were all presented at the Eighteenth Biennial Meeting of the Hegel Society of America, held at UCLA on October 22–24, 2004. I wish to thank conference hosts Professor John McCumber and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature for their generous support. I also wish to thank Benay Furtivo for the excellent arrangements for the conference.

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Introduction Philip T. Grier

Framing the Issues

All too frequently in the contemporary world we find groups obsessed with asserting the “identity” or “sameness” of their members in order to affirm the contrast with what they perceive to threaten them as “dif- ferent” or “other.”The perceived differences may belong to any number of familiar typologies, including race, religion, ethnicity, gender, class, sexual preference, or other status taken to be “fundamental” in some supposedly alarming sense. And of course some of the most violent boundary-drawing exercises occur where multiple attributes of per- ceived “difference” are thought to be simultaneously present, such as, for example, when a different religion, race, and ethnicity are all thought to characterize a specific “other” at once. Such particular manifesta- tions of the politics of “group identity” are the frequently appalling stuff of daily news. But not all construals of identity are motivated simply by the “poli- tical” desire to exclude some specific other. Prior to such potentially pathological forms of the construction of group identities there are a number of more fundamental and essential forms of identity to be achieved, in the absence of which we would be unable to construe ourselves as moral or political agents at all, indeed, in the absence of which we would be unable to construe ourselves asselves. These more fundamental forms include the constitution of self-conscious indivi- dual identity in relation to other individuals, the constitution of self- conscious individual identity in relation to some larger, all-embracing communal identity, such as that represented by the state, and the constitution of national identity in relation to other nations. (Each of

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