Hegel's Hermeneutics /
Redding, Paul
Hegel's Hermeneutics / Paul Redding. - 1 online resource (280 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION: Hegel, Hermeneutics, and the Copernican Revolution in Philosophy -- CHAPTER 1. Science, Theology, and the Subject in Modern Philosophy -- CHAPTER 2. The Pathways of Hermeneutic Philosophy -- CHAPTER 3. Hegel's Early Schellingianism -- CHAPTER 4. The Revolutionary Philosophical Form of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit -- CHAPTER 5. Hegel's Recognitive Theory of Spirit -- CHAPTER 6. Figures of Recognition -- CHAPTER 7. The Logic of Recognition -- CHAPTER 8. Right and Its Recognition -- CHAPTER 9. Sittlichkeit and Its Spheres -- CHAPTER 10. The Celebration and Criticism of Civil Society: Hegel, Adam Smith, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- CHAPTER 11. The Recognitive Logic of the Rational State -- CONCLUSION. The Nature of Hegelian Philosophy -- Bibliography -- Index
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An advance on recent revisionist thinking about Hegelian philosophy, this book interprets Hegel's achievement as part of a revolutionary modernization of ancient philosophical thought initiated by Kant. In particular, Paul Redding argues that Hegel's use of hermeneutics, an emerging way of thinking objectively about intentional human subjects, overcame the major obstacle encountered by Kant in his attempt to modernize philosophy. The result was the first genuinely modern, hermeneutic, and "nonmetaphysical" philosophy.Redding describes Hegel's accomplishment in terms of a development of Kant's revolution in philosophy, a "Copernican " revolution analogous to that which initiated modern science. He shows how the heterodox pantheistic views and hermeneutic social thought which merged at the end of the eighteenth century provided a fruitful environment for the transformation that Kantian idealism underwent within the work of Schelling and the early Hegel. He argues that Hegel overcame Schelling's pantheistic metaphysics with the Phenomenology of Spirit and developed a post-metaphysical hermeneutic mode of philosophy.Redding goes on to show how the social theory of Hegel's Philosophy of Right and the conceptual structures of his allegedly most metaphysical work, the Science of Logic, are systematically linked to the hermeneutic insights of the Phenomenology. Against this background, Hegel's works are freed from traditional misunderstandings. Redding demonstrates that Hegel's analyses of modernity and the modern state surpass the one-sided views of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, providing a coherent framework for modern social and political thought.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501737596
10.7591/9781501737596 doi
Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics.
Hegel's Hermeneutics / Paul Redding. - 1 online resource (280 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION: Hegel, Hermeneutics, and the Copernican Revolution in Philosophy -- CHAPTER 1. Science, Theology, and the Subject in Modern Philosophy -- CHAPTER 2. The Pathways of Hermeneutic Philosophy -- CHAPTER 3. Hegel's Early Schellingianism -- CHAPTER 4. The Revolutionary Philosophical Form of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit -- CHAPTER 5. Hegel's Recognitive Theory of Spirit -- CHAPTER 6. Figures of Recognition -- CHAPTER 7. The Logic of Recognition -- CHAPTER 8. Right and Its Recognition -- CHAPTER 9. Sittlichkeit and Its Spheres -- CHAPTER 10. The Celebration and Criticism of Civil Society: Hegel, Adam Smith, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- CHAPTER 11. The Recognitive Logic of the Rational State -- CONCLUSION. The Nature of Hegelian Philosophy -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
An advance on recent revisionist thinking about Hegelian philosophy, this book interprets Hegel's achievement as part of a revolutionary modernization of ancient philosophical thought initiated by Kant. In particular, Paul Redding argues that Hegel's use of hermeneutics, an emerging way of thinking objectively about intentional human subjects, overcame the major obstacle encountered by Kant in his attempt to modernize philosophy. The result was the first genuinely modern, hermeneutic, and "nonmetaphysical" philosophy.Redding describes Hegel's accomplishment in terms of a development of Kant's revolution in philosophy, a "Copernican " revolution analogous to that which initiated modern science. He shows how the heterodox pantheistic views and hermeneutic social thought which merged at the end of the eighteenth century provided a fruitful environment for the transformation that Kantian idealism underwent within the work of Schelling and the early Hegel. He argues that Hegel overcame Schelling's pantheistic metaphysics with the Phenomenology of Spirit and developed a post-metaphysical hermeneutic mode of philosophy.Redding goes on to show how the social theory of Hegel's Philosophy of Right and the conceptual structures of his allegedly most metaphysical work, the Science of Logic, are systematically linked to the hermeneutic insights of the Phenomenology. Against this background, Hegel's works are freed from traditional misunderstandings. Redding demonstrates that Hegel's analyses of modernity and the modern state surpass the one-sided views of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, providing a coherent framework for modern social and political thought.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501737596
10.7591/9781501737596 doi
Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics.