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Hegel Reconsidered

Beyond Metaphysics and the Authoritarian State

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. H. Tristram Engelhardt

    1. Philosophy Department, Rice University, Houston, USA
      Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

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  2. Terry Pinkard

    1. Georgetown University, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture (PSCC, volume 2)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hegel Reconsidered

  • Book Subtitle: Beyond Metaphysics and the Authoritarian State

  • Editors: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Terry Pinkard

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8378-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2629-8Published: 30 April 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4349-8Published: 05 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8378-7Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0928-9518

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1753

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 262

  • Topics: Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy, general, Ethics

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