Hegel Reconsidered

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

   Pages 1-18

3. The Hegelian Project

   • Stephen Bungay

   Pages 19-42

4. Hegel’s Metaphysics, or the Categorial Approach to Knowledge of Experience

   • Tom Rockmore

   Pages 43-56

5. Hegel’s Critique of Kant and Pre-Kantian Metaphysics

   • Klaus Brinkmann

   Pages 57-78

6. On the Theoretical Form of Hegel’s Aesthetics

   • Reinhold Aschenberg

   Pages 79-101

7. The Cogency of the Logic’s Argumentation: Securing the Dialectic’s Claim to Justify Categories

   • Thomas J. Bole III

   Pages 103-117

8. The Meta-Ontological Option: On Taking the Existential Turn

   • George Khushf

   Pages 119-142

9. The Logic of Contingency

   • Deborah Chaffin

   Pages 143-161

10. Constitutionalism, Politics and the Common Life

    • Terry Pinkard

    Pages 163-186

11. Revolution as the Foundation of Political Philosophy

    • Dick Howard

    Pages 187-209

12. Sittlichkeit and Post-Modernity: An Hegelian Reconsideration of the State

    • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

    Pages 211-224

13. Klaus Hartmann and G.W.F. Hegel: A Personal Postscript

    • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

    Pages 225-229

14. Back Matter

    Pages 231-259

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Much of contemporary philosophy, political theory, and social thought has been shaped directly or indirectly by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, though there is considerable disagreement about how his work should be understood. He has been described both as a metaphysician and characterized as an ironic narrator who anticipated the character of philosophy after metaphysics. His position is equally ambiguous with regard to his political thought. He has been construed both as an enemy of the liberal state and as a friend of freedom.
This volume's revisionist reassessment, building on the scholarship of Klaus Hartmann, explores these ambiguities in favor of a non-metaphysical reading of Hegel's arguments. It also shows how the foundations of his political thought support a liberal democratic state. This reappraisal of Hegel's arguments resituates him as a philosopher who anticipates the difficulties of post-modernity and offers a basis for reassessing ontology, aesthetics, and revolution. Philosophers and those doing work in political theory will find this volume of great interest.

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Immanuel Kant
• freedom
• logic
• metaphysics
• ontology
• philosophy
• politics

• Philosophy Department, Rice University, Houston, USA

  H. Tristram Engelhardt

• Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

  H. Tristram Engelhardt

• Georgetown University, USA

  Terry Pinkard

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