Essays on Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit

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Although Hegel considered his philosophy of subjective spirit to be of particular importance, it has been the focus of little present-day scholarship, particularly in English. Recent editorial work associated with the publication of a new edition of Hegel's Gesammelte Werke and the discovery and translation of a transcript of one of his lecture courses on the topic, however, have set the stage for a fresh encounter with this fascinating and wide-ranging component of his thought. Taking up questions central to the philosophy of mind and body and to the philosophy of psychology, the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit includes discussions of feelings and emotions, consciousness, habit and free will, and rationality—as well as madness, dreams, and the paranormal. Situating Hegel's philosophy on the topic in relation to the rest of his work, to his contemporaries, and to current philosophy of mind and psychology, this volume demonstrates its richness as a focus of study and paves the way for a new direction in Hegel scholarship.
References and Abbreviations

Editor’s Introduction
David S. Stern

Anthropology, Geist, and the Soul-Body Relation: The Systematic Beginning of Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit
Angelica Nuzzo

Hegel’s Naturalism or Soul and Body in the Encyclopedia
Italo Testa

How the Dreaming Soul Became the Feeling Soul, between the 1827 and 1830 Editions of Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit: Empirical Psychology and the Late Enlightenment
Jeffery Reid

The Dark Side of Subjective Spirit: Hegel on Mesmerism, Madness, and Ganglia
Glenn Alexander Magee

Hegel on the Emotions: Coordinating Form and Content
Jason J. Howard

Awakening to Madness and Habituation to Death in Hegel’s “Anthropology”
Nicholas Mowad

Awakening from Madness: The Relationship between Spirit and Nature in Light of Hegel’s Account of Madness
Mario Wenning

Between Nature and Spirit: Hegel’s Account of Habit
Simon Lumsden

The “Struggle for Recognition” and the Thematization of Intersubjectivity
Marina F. Bykova

Freedom as Correlation: Recognition and Self-Actualization in Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit
Robert R. Williams

Hegel’s Linguistic Thought in the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit: Between Kant and the “Metacritics”
Jere O’Neill Surber

The Psychology of Will and the Deduction of Right: Rethinking Hegel’s Theory of Practical Intelligence
Richard Dien Winfield

The Relation of Mind to Nature: Two Paradigms
Philip T. Grier

Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Philosophy
• Philosophy of mind

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 27 décembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438444468
• Langue: English

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Essays on Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
Edited by
David S. Stern

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Essays on Hegel's philosophy of subjective spirit / edited by David S. Stern.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-4445-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770–1831. 2. Spirit—History—19th century. 3. Subjectivity—History—19th century. I. Stern, David S., 1956
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References and Abbreviations
Through this volume references to Hegel's works use the following abbreviations: Enz. (1817) G. W. F. Hegel, Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse (1817), with collaboration of Hans-Christian Lucas and Udo Rameil, ed. Wolfgang Bonsiepen und Klaus Grotsch, Gesammelte Werke , vol. 13 (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2000). Enz. (1827) G. W. F. Hegel, Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundisse (1827), ed. W. Bonsiepen and H.-C. Lucas, Gesammelte Werke , vol. 19 (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1989). Enz. (1830) G. W. F. Hegel, Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundisse (1830), with collaboration of Udo Rameil, ed. Wolfgang Bonsiepen and Hans-Christian Lucas, Gesammelte Werke vol. 20 (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1992). Enz III G. W. F. Hegel, Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften III , in Werke in zwanzing Bänden , vol. 10, ed. Eva Moldenhauer and Karl Markus Michel (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag 1986). VPG  (1827–28) G. W. F. Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie des Geistes. Berlin 1827/1828 , transcribed by Johann Eduard Erdmann and Ferdinand Walter. Ed. Franz Hespe and Burkhard Tuschling, Vorlesungen. Ausgewählte Nachschriften und Manuskripte , vol. 13 (Hamburg: Meiner Verlag, 1994). LPS  (1827–28) G. W. F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit 1827–28 , trans. and intro. Robert R. Williams (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). PSS  G. W. F. Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit . 3 vols. Ed. and trans. M. J. Petry. (Boston: D. Reidel, 1978). PM  G. W. F. Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind , trans. W. Wallace and A. V. Miller (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971). PN  G. W. F. Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Nature , trans. A. V. Miller (Oxford: Clarendon, 1970). Z  Refers to the Zusätze or additions based on lecture notes inserted as clarificatory material by Hegel's posthumous editors. The particular source in which the Zusatz appear will be indicated by the footnote itself.
Editor's Introduction
The present volume of essays is the first English-language collection devoted to Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit . The Philosophy of Subjective Spirit is the first section of the third part of Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences . First published in 1817, Hegel published two additional editions of the Encyclopedia in his lifetime, one in 1827 and the third in 1830, just a year before his untimely death. That he saw fit to devote his efforts to revising, expanding, and republishing the Encyclopedia provides a clear indication of the importance Hegel attached to the Encyclopedia , something not lost on Hegel scholars. But this recognition notwithstanding, the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit has remained until very recently what one scholar has justifiably called a “less-well-known, less well-understood area in Hegel's thought.” 1 For a variety of reasons, including the editorial work associated with the publication of the new edition of Hegel's Gesammelte Werke, recent textual discoveries, and the saliency of issues in the philosophy of mind in contemporary philosophy generally, we have recently witnessed renewed interest in the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit . The essays in the present volume, all prepared for publication here, contribute to a growing body of new scholarship on the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit and Hegel's thought on some issues of central concern in contemporary philosophy of mind.
Prior to the 1970s there were virtually no studies of the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit in English. In 1975, John Findlay brought out a new edition of the 19th-century translation of the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit into English, 2 followed some three years later by the three-volume edition of the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit by Michael Petry. 3 Both of these included for the first time English translations of the Zusätze or supplementary material that Hegel's 19th century editor, Ludwig Boumann, compiled from notes, lecture transcripts, and other sources. Drawing on this new editorial and translation work, Willem deVries published an important study, Hegel's Theory of Mental Activity , in 1987, and Daniel Bertold-Bond authored Hegel's Theory of Madness in 1995. 4
It is generally agreed that these supplementary materials enhance the intelligibility of the materials published by Hegel in the Encyclopedia , which was intended by him to serve as an outline for his lecture courses, and these English-language scholarly works may have been stimulated by the translation of the materials in English. Nonetheless, the editorial methods Boumann used in compiling the materials have confounded scholars. In creating the Zusätze he combined varying sources from different hands that were drawn from different years, based on as many as five different lecture courses offered by Hegel between 1816 and 1830 and that in some cases were based on the first edition of the Encyclopedia but were published together as Additions to the text of the third edition.
Many of the materials available to Boumann have, alas, been lost or destroyed. Though Hegel lectured on the philosophy of spirit five times between 1820 and 1830, we have available five transcripts based on three of the lecture courses. Three of the transcripts—by Hotho from 1822 and Griesheim and Kehler from 1825—have been known to scholars for quite some time and were reissued and translated into English by M. J. Petry in his invaluable three-volume edition noted just above. More recently, they have been definitively edited and published as a volume in Hegel's Gesammelete Werke . 5 None, however, presents a transcript of a complete lecture course. In 1994 two transcripts lost during World War II were rediscovered in Polish libraries. The publication of these transcripts by Franz Hespe and Burhard Tuschling constituted a major addition to the resources for understanding Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit , constituting the first publication of a complete transcript of one of Hegel's lecture courses from 1827 through 1828. 6 That transcript has now been translated into English by Robert Williams, who has also provided a very useful introduction. 7
The editorial and philological stage has thus been set for a fresh philosophical encounter in English with Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit . The present volume of new essays, by scholars from the United States, Canada, Australia, Macau, and Italy constitutes a significant contribution to that encounter. As these essays reveal, there are far more than philological and historical reasons why such a new encounter is warranted. The Philosophy of Subjective Spirit is a rich work in which Hegel deals with a wide range of topics that have been central to the philosophy of mind, philosophical psychology, and philosophy of action, including discussions of feeling, consciousness, mind and body, emotions, memory, habit, free will, and rationality, among many others. But a reader new to this work may also be surprised to find that Hegel deals with a variety of other phenomena that one might not expect, including the paranormal, madness, dreams, and ganglia, to mention only a few. Moreover, Hegel does so by considering both historical and contemporaneous philosophical works on the one hand and contemporary science on the other. And finally, it should be noted that the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit contains detailed treatments of some of the most important Hegelian concepts such as the master/slave dialectic, recognition, and the relation between causality and freedom so central to Hegel's social and political philosophy. These treatments do not merely recapitulate what is available in the better known texts such as the Phenomenology of Spirit or the Philosophy of Right , but instead offer new approaches that sometimes differ markedly from the more familiar texts.
Given the extraordinary array of topics in the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit , the contributors included in this volume do not aim to provide a comprehensive study of all the important topics Hegel treats. Rather, they present concentrated analyses of some of the major topics Hegel considers in Philosophy of Subjective Spirit and associated lecture courses. In doing so, they take a range of approaches to Hegel; the most important are historical approaches that situate Hegel's thought and articulate its distinctive perspective within the history of philosophy, on the one hand, and essays that deal with contemporary topics and thinkers on the philosophy of mind, language, and action, on the other hand. The distinction is, however, an imperfect one, as several of the essays combine both approaches to advance our understanding of Hegel's sometimes strange and fascinating texts on su