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The preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most widely-read texts in Hegel's corpus, and yet we still lack a clear understanding of its aims. Providing a fresh perspective on Hegel's preface, Andrew Davis contends that it should be read as an overview of what philosophy is not. Contesting previous investigations that have assumed Hegel's purpose in the preface is to introduce the reader to his own philosophical method, Davis moves Hegel's positive comments about the nature of philosophy to the background. This is, after all, where they belong in a preface, according to Hegelian philosophy, as Hegel contends that the actual nature of philosophy cannot be presented in advance of specific inquiries. Examining the nature of philosophy through negation, each chapter in the book explores a different form of pseudo-philosophy that Hegel addresses in his preface. Together, they allow Hegelian philosophy to appear in relief as precisely what cannot be achieved through explanation, edification, formalism, phenomenology, mathematical proof, propositional truth, or personal revelation. With an appendix featuring synopses of every paragraph of the preface, Hegel on Pseudo-Philosophy not only offers a jargon-free introduction to Hegel's thought, but it also yields crucial insights into the organisation of a preface that has long been decried as haphazard or incomprehensible

Phenomenology. --- Spirit --- Philosophy. --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,

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"What is Hegel's conception of freedom? Was he a liberal thinker of freedom? Or is he a totalitarian for whom individual freedom does not play a significant role? This work tries to clarify what Hegel's conception of freedom was, a project carried out with the help of a philosophical reconstruction of Hegel's "Philosophy of Right"."--

Liberty --- Philosophy. --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,

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Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit examines a conspicuous feature of Hegel's major works: that they are progressive narratives. They advance from less to more perfect, abstract to concrete, indeterminate or empty to determinate. This is true, argues the author, of his lectures on aesthetics and on the history of philosophy, and it is also true of his most abstract work, the Science of Logic. In answer to the question of why is it so important for Hegel to structure his various philosophical works as developmental narratives, this book defends the thesis that Hegel's motivation is in part metaphysical, intending his developmental accounts to reveal something significant about who we are as thinking, willing natures. He undertakes his study of past in order to demonstrate that there have been advances in the nature of human thought or reason itself and in our resulting freedom and his concern with our reason's development conveys his interest in how human reason is anchored in and shaped by its past. Ultimately, this book specifies the extent to which we can accurately attribute to Hegel the view that human reason and the freedom it affords us are indebted for their nature to this temporal order of nature and history.

Hégélianisme. --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, --- Critique et interprétation.

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This book reclaims Hegel’s notion of the “end of art”—or, more precisely, of “art’s past character”—not just as a piece of the history of philosophy but as a living critical and interpretive methodology. It addresses the presence of the past character of art in both Hegel and contemporary philosophy and aesthetics.The book’s innovative contribution lies in unifying the Hegelian thesis with discussions of contemporary art and philosophy. The author not only offers a Hegelian exegesis but also applies the idea of the past character of art to themes that are related to both Hegel’s philosophy, such as the French Revolution and the modern state, Kantian aesthetics, and religion and the sacred space disclosed for art, and going beyond Hegel, such as Celan's poetry, Gramsci's criticism of Croce, human rights, and even the grunge rock band Pearl Jam. Conversely, such non-Hegelian explorations will help enlighten what may look like a specific thread of Hegel’s aesthetics, but can be used to shed light on some core motives of his philosophy. The author’s interpretation of art’s past character reclaims the full value, attractiveness, and philosophical soundness of Hegel’s thesis, while rejecting its interpretation in terms of a complete dissolution of the aesthetic element into the philosophical one.Hegel and the Present of Art’s Past Character will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Hegel, philosophy of art and aesthetics, history of philosophy, political philosophy, and art theory.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, --- Critique et interprétation. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"Le néant ne se laisse pas facilement approcher par la pensée, car il constitue pour elle une limite. Limite interne à la pensée chez Hegel, c'est-à-dire son extrémité la plus abstraite, ou encore limite externe chez Heidegger, ce voile qui marque la finitude de ce qui se déclôt et qui le fait se tenir en retrait de la pensée. Dans les deux cas cependant, cette limite doit être pensée pour elle-même, de manière à mettre au jour la vérité à laquelle peut et doit accéder la pensée pour se mettre en branle. Cette vérité fait se joindre le néant à son autre, que cet autre soit l'être ou l'Ereignis, et selon ce que commande l'épreuve héraclitéenne. En effet, Hegel et Heidegger ont tous les deux cherché à penser le néant avec Héraclite, encore plus selon la processualité qui se trouve affichée dans ses fragments et parfois au-delà des propos de ceux-ci. Mais s'approcher du néant avec Héraclite suppose l'indépassabilité de l'un, qui provient déjà de Parménide. La limite de la pensée ne devient-elle donc pas plutôt l'un que le néant ? Et le néant, s'il est toujours pensé comme le néant de son autre en unité avec lui, est-il véritablement pensé pour lui-même ? En suivant le détail des interprétations respectives de Hegel et de Heidegger à l'égard d'Héraclite, ce livre veut diriger la pensée vers un néant indifférent à l'un, au-delà de toute approche héraclitéenne."--Page 4 of cover

Nothing (Philosophy) --- Heraclitus, --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, --- Heidegger, Martin, --- Influence.