A Companion to Hegel

Houlgate, Stephen / Baur, Michael (Editor)

Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

1. Edition April 2011
670 Pages, Hardcover
Professional Book

ISBN: 978-1-4051-7076-5

John Wiley & Sons

Short Description

This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays that cover the whole range of Hegel's mature thought and his lasting influence. A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophers, A Companion to Hegel examines Hegel's influence on a range of thinkers, from Kierkegaard and Marx to Heidegger, Adorno, and Derrida. It begins with a chronology of Hegel's life and work and is then split into sections covering topics such as Philosophy of Nature, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Religion. Essays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most up-to-date Hegel research.

Further versions

This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays that cover the whole range of Hegel's mature thought and his lasting influence.
* A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophers
* Essays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most up-to-date Hegel research
* Contributions are drawn from across the world and from a wide variety of philosophical approaches and traditions
* Examines Hegel's influence on a range of thinkers, from Kierkegaard and Marx to Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida
* Begins with a chronology of Hegel's life and work and is then split into sections covering topics such as Philosophy of Nature, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Religion

Notes on Contributors

Chronology of Hegel's Life and Work

G.W.F. Hegel: An Introduction to His Life and Thought

Part I: Early Writings

Part II: Phenomenology of Spirit

Part III: Logic

Part IV: Philosophy of Nature

Part V: Philosophy of Subjective Spirit

Part VI: Philosophy of Right

Part VII: Philosophy of History

Part VIII: Aesthetics

Part IX: Philosophy of Religion

Part X: History of Philosophy

Part XI: Hegel and Post-Hegelian Thought

Index

Stephen Houlgate is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics (1986), An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History (1991, 2005) and The Opening of Hegel's Logic: From Being to Infinity (2006), and his edited volumes include Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature (1998), The Hegel Reader (1998), and G.W.F. Hegel: Outlines of the Philosophy of Right (2008). He has served as Vice President and President of the Hegel Society of America and is a former editor of the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain.

Michael Baur is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. He is Secretary of the Hegel Society of America and has published widely on phenomenology, critical theory, philosophy of law, and nineteenth-century continental philosophy, and on thinkers including Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Aristotle, and Aquinas.

S. Houlgate, University of Warwick, UK; M. Baur, Fordham University, USA