A Companion to Hegel

Notes on Contributors ix

Chronology of Hegel’s Life and Work xv

G.W.F. Hegel: An Introduction to His Life and Thought 1
Stephen Houlgate

Part I Early Writings 21

1 Religion, Love, and Law: Hegel’s Early Metaphysics of Morals 23
Katerina Deligiorgi

Part II Phenomenology of Spirit 45

2 The Project of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit 47
John Russon

3 Self-Consciousness, Anti-Cartesianism, and Cognitive Semantics in Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology 68
Kenneth R. Westphal

4 Spirit as the “Unconditioned” 91
Terry Pinkard

Part III Logic 109

5 Thinking Being: Method in Hegel’s Logic of Being 111
Angelica Nuzzo

6 Essence, Refl exion, and Immediacy in Hegel’s Science of Logic 139
Stephen Houlgate

7 Conceiving 159
John W. Burbidge

Part IV Philosophy of Nature 175

8 Hegel and the Sciences 177
Thomas Posch

9 The Transition to Organics: Hegel’s Idea of Life 203
Cinzia Ferrini

Part V Philosophy of Subjective Spirit 225

10 Hegel’s Solution to the Mind-Body Problem 227
Richard Dien Winfield

11 Hegel’s Philosophy of Language: The Unwritten Volume 243
Jere O’Neill Surber

Part VI Philosophy of Right 263

12 Hegel on the Empty Formalism of Kant’s Categorical Imperative 265
Sally Sedgwick

13 The Idea of a Hegelian ‘Science’ of Society 281
Frederick Neuhouser

14 Hegel’s Political Philosophy 297
Allen W. Wood

Part VII Philosophy of History 313

15 “The Ruling Categories of the World”: The Trinity in Hegel’s Philosophy of History and The Rise and Fall of Peoples 315
Robert Bernasconi

16 Hegel and Ranke: A Re-examination 332
Frederick C. Beiser

Part VIII Aesthetics 351

17 Hegel and the “Historical Deduction” of the Concept of Art 353
Allen Speight

18 Soundings: Hegel on Music 369
John Sallis

Part IX Philosophy of Religion 385

19 Love, Recognition, Spirit: Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion 387
Robert R. Williams

20 Hegel’s Proofs of the Existence of God 414
Peter C. Hodgson

Part X History of Philosophy 431

21 Hegel’s Aristotle: Philosophy and Its Time 433
Alfredo Ferrarin

22 From Kant’s Highest Good to Hegel’s Absolute Knowing 452
Michael Baur

Part XI Hegel and Post-Hegelian Thought 475

23 Hegel and Marx 477
Andrew Chitty

24 Kierkegaard and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge 501
Jon Stewart

25 Thinking of Nothing: Heidegger’s Criticism of Hegel’s Conception of Negativity 519
Daniel O. Dahlstrom

26 Adorno’s Reconception of the Dialectic 537
Brian O’Connor

27 Hegel and Pragmatism 556
Robert Stern

28 The Analytic Neo-Hegelianism of John McDowell and Robert Brandom 576
Paul Redding

29 Différance as Negativity: The Hegelian Remains of Derrida’s Philosophy 594
Karin de Boer

30 You Be My Body for Me: Body, Shape, and Plasticity in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit 611
Catherine Malabou and Judith Butler

Index 641