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Cambridge University Press Emersons Epistemology
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Cambridge University Press Three Works
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Cambridge University Press Leibniz God and Necessity
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Cambridge University Press Locke Shaftesbury and Hutcheson
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Foucault on Freedom
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Cambridge University Press Fichte
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Cambridge University Press Selected Writings of August Cieszkowski Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
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Cambridge University Press Locke and the Compass of Human Understanding A Selective Commentary on the Essay
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Cambridge University Press Carnap and TwentiethCentury Thought Explication as Enlightenment
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Cambridge University Press Kant and the Ethics of Humility
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting Spinoza
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Cambridge University Press J G Herder on Social Political Culture Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
Book SynopsisThe texts collected in this volume, which was originally published in 1969, contain Herder's most original and stimulating ideas on politics, history and language. They had for the most part not been previously available in English. In his introduction, Professor Barnard analyses the basic premises of Herder's political thought against the background of the Enlightenment. He examines Herder's concepts of language, community and culture, his theory of historical interaction, and his approach to the problem of change and progress. Finally, he provides a brief comparative analysis of traditionalist thought following the French Revolution, showing how substantive writers like Burke differed from Herder despite the close similarity of political vocabulary.Table of ContentsPreface; Note on the texts; Books on Herder in English; Introduction; Selected Texts: 1. Journal of my voyage in the year 1769; 2. Essay on the origin of language; 3. Yet another philosophy of history; 4. Dissertation on the reciprocal influence of government and the sciences; 5. Ideas for a philosophy of the history of mankind; index.
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Cambridge University Press The Krausist Movement and Ideological Change in Spain 1854 1874
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to Kants Moral Philosophy
Book SynopsisImmanuel Kant's moral philosophy is one of the most distinctive achievements of the European Enlightenment. At its heart lies what Kant called the 'strange thing': the free, rational, human will. This introduction explores the basis of Kant's anti-naturalist, secular, humanist vision of the human good. Moving from a sketch of the Kantian will, with all its component parts and attributes, to Kant's canonical arguments for his categorical imperative, this introduction shows why Kant thought his moral law the best summary expression of both his own philosophical work on morality and his readers' deepest shared convictions about the good. Kant's central tenets, key arguments, and core values are presented in an accessible and engaging way, making this book ideal for anyone eager to explore the fundamentals of Kant's moral philosophy.Trade Review'Uleman consistently states her aims in each chapter clearly, organizes discussions well, and poses questions to make her train of thought easy to follow. Her grasp of the details of Kant's moral philosophy as well as of how those details hang together to form a whole is rare and impressive. This work should prove to be very helpful to many students.' Lara Denis, Agnes Scott College'This engaging book is a wonderful introduction to Kant's moral philosophy. It explains many of Kant's central concepts, such as those of will, freedom, maxims, and imperatives, clearly and succinctly. But the book also makes an argument that must be taken seriously by every scholar as well as student of Kant: that Kant's formulations of the categorical imperative collectively analyze what it is to make the realization of freedom the ultimate goal of human action. The book also beautifully shows how Kant unfolds the value of realizing our freedom without reducing his argument to the kind of empirical, psychological morality that Kant rejects. This is a wise, insightful work.' Paul Guyer, University of PennsylvaniaTable of Contents1. Introduction: the strange thing; 2. A sketch of Kantian will: desire and the human subject; 3. A sketch continued: the structure of practical reason; 4. A sketch completed: freedom; 5. Against nature: Kant's argumentative strategy; 6. The categorical imperative: free will willing itself; 7. What's so good about the good Kantian will? The appeals of the strange thing; 8. Conclusion: Kant and the good free rational will; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The English Mind
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Cambridge University Press Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Theoretical Philosophy After 1781
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Cambridge University Press Notes and Fragments The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy and German Literature 1700 1990
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy as Therapeia 66 Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements Series Number 66
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsches Postmoralism
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Cambridge University Press Taming the Leviathan The Reception of the Political and Religious Ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England 16401700 82 Ideas in Context Series Number 82
Book SynopsisThomas Hobbes is widely acknowledged as the most important political philosopher to have written in English. Originally published in 2007, Taming the Leviathan is a wide-ranging study of the English reception of Hobbes's ideas. In the first book-length treatment of the topic for over forty years, Jon Parkin follows the fate of Hobbes's texts (particularly Leviathan) and the development of his controversial reputation during the seventeenth century, revealing the stakes in the critical discussion of the philosopher and his ideas. Revising the traditional view that Hobbes was simply rejected by his contemporaries, Parkin demonstrates that Hobbes's work was too useful for them to ignore, but too radical to leave unchallenged. His texts therefore had to be controlled, their lessons absorbed and their author discredited. In other words the Leviathan had to be tamed. Taming the Leviathan significantly revised our understanding of the role of Hobbes and Hobbism in seventeenth-century England.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'This is a substantial contribution to our fuller understanding of Hobbes and his political thought …' Contemporary ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Jon Parkin retells this mocking satire with noticeable gusto in his Taming the Leviathan, a comprehensive and well-argued survey of the reception of Hobbes in England … Parkin overall stresses the English case in all its splendid isolation. … the work stands out as an excellent contribution to the subdiscipline of the history of reading and it will prove to be very useful for historians of political thought and to reception theorists.' Review of PoliticsReview of the hardback: 'Parkin, who has consulted and examined a wide variety of manuscript sources - sermons, poems and even plays - presents his elegantly written account of 'Anglican Hobbism' … with great expertise and skill and with an always entertaining portion of laconic humour.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History'Parkin's substantial monograph, developing his succinct account in the Cambridge Companion, explores with meticulous and erudite detail the reception of Hobbes' political and religious writings and polemic in the half century of so up until the 1700s … ' British Journal for the History of PhilosophyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Reading Hobbes before Leviathan, 1640–1651; 2. Leviathan 1651–1654; 3. The storm 1654–1658; 4. Restoration 1658–1666; 5. Hobbes and Hobbism 1666-1675; 6. Hobbes and the Restoration Crisis 1675–1685; 7. Hobbism in the Glorious Revolution 1685–1700; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Hobbes Today
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Cambridge University Press Newton as Philosopher
Book SynopsisNewton's philosophical views are unique and uniquely difficult to categorise. In the course of a long career from the early 1670s until his death in 1727, he articulated profound responses to Cartesian natural philosophy and to the prevailing mechanical philosophy of his day. Newton as Philosopher presents Newton as an original and sophisticated contributor to natural philosophy, one who engaged with the principal ideas of his most important predecessor, Renà Descartes, and of his most influential critic, G. W. Leibniz. Unlike Descartes and Leibniz, Newton was systematic and philosophical without presenting a philosophical system, but over the course of his life, he developed a novel picture of nature, our place within it, and its relation to the creator. This rich treatment of his philosophical ideas will be of wide interest to historians of philosophy, science, and ideas.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Newton as Philosopher is the best and most comprehensive discussion now available of Newton's philosophical views and their relationship with his physics - especially in connection with such vexed issues as the existence of forces, action at a distance, and God's relation to 'absolute space'. It is particularly remarkable for the way in which it very illuminatingly situates these issues within the wider context of early modern philosophy more generally.' Michael Friedman, Stanford UniversityReview of the hardback: 'Janiak argues strongly for Newton as a philosopher, and gives a bold and compelling account of what he labels 'Newton's physical metaphysics'. Because it details the close relationship between natural philosophy and traditional metaphysical themes, his book will engage not only historians of eighteenth-century ideas but also those philosophers of physics who examine historically foundational physical concepts such as space, time and mass.' Christopher Kenny, University of Leeds'… fulfils the task successfully, and proves the good that can come from combining a historically accurate account with a philosophically compelling analysis … Janiak masterfully steers his interpretive analysis through an extraordinarily rich historical material, while the philosophically rigorous narrative takes the reader from one chapter to the next in a compelling way. The final result is a brilliant book that has an important story to tell about Newton's "physical metaphysics" and it makes it an occasion for a thousand wider meditations … Janiak's Newton sheds new light on the vexed issue of the relationship between Newton's physics and his metaphysical and religious beliefs, and on how the latter informed and illuminated the former … Janiak's monograph offers an essential contribution to the ever-growing field of history and philosophy of science, and proves once more what can be achieved by masterfully integrating intellectual history of science with philosophy.' The Journal of PhilosophyTable of ContentsPreface; Notes on text and translations; 1. Newton as philosopher, the very idea; 2. Physics and metaphysics: three interpretations; 3. Do forces exist? Contesting the mechanical philosophy, I; 4. Matter and mechanism: contesting the mechanical philosophy, II; 5. Space in physics and metaphysics: contra Descartes; 6. God and natural philosophy; Bibliography; index.
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Cambridge University Press Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of JeanJacques Rousseau
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Cambridge University Press The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance
Book SynopsisIn this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.13501525. His book fills a bibliographic gap between Petrarch and Machiavelli and offers clear case studies of contemporary luminaries, including Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Lorenzo Valla, Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, and Pietro Bembo. Integrating sources in Italian and Latin, Celenza focuses on the linked issues of language and philosophy. He also examines the conditions in which Renaissance intellectuals operated in an era before the invention of printing, analyzing reading strategies and showing how texts were consulted, and how new ideas were generated as a result of conversations, both oral and epistolary. The result is a volume that offers a new view on both the history of philosophy and Italian Renaissance intellectual life. It will serve as a key resource for students and scholars of early modern Italian humanism and culture.Trade Review'In The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance, Christopher Celenza provides a priceless vademecum for the study of Italian humanism. It rolls up in a delectable ball all that has come before: Garin and Kristeller; Burckhardt, Baron, and Martines; Fubini and Vasoli; Hankins, Allen, and the others. It presents in depth and with exquisite clarity the major works of nine leading humanists from Petrarch to Poliziano (plus many others introduced in discursive 'parentheses'), culminating with the writer and critic Pietro Bembo, who translates the humanist heritage into a new language of art, a Latinized Tuscan. The lucidity of the explication de textes is matched by the precision with which Celenza profiles his cast of characters, who are presented with full dimensionality in their psychological, social, and cultural contexts: the careerist Poggio, the brawler Valla, the self-made man and Medici servitor Poliziano.' Margaret L. King, The Catholic Historical Review'This is an immensely learned book, written in a clear, accessible style and rich in insight and understanding. Celenza has followed the currents of language and philosophy - which he defines, as do his sources, as the love of wisdom rather than a defined discipline - as elements in the search for meaning and hence self-knowledge and shared values. It is the ideal place to begin a journey into the ideas and debates that informed the intellectual world of the Italian Renaissance.' Kenneth Bartlett, American Historical Review'… Celenza presents a rich analysis and narrative of what it meant to participate in Renaissance Italian intellectual life. I recommend his book - either as a whole, or individual chapters as essays - to undergraduates studying intellectual life during the Florentine Renaissance, or to graduate students and early researchers, as a robust and very clear introduction to Renaissance intellectual life and Renaissance humanism.' Barry Torch, Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme'The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance offers an accessible synthesis of intellectual history in Italy from Petrarch to Pietro Bembo … This book will become the standard introductory text to the subject for students, while specialists will also find here a well-written and thoughtful account of a topic that so often defies synthetic treatment … Historians and students of thought, culture and society, as well as literary scholars and students will all find much to ponder here.' Brian J. Maxson, H-Net reviews'This is an immensely learned book, written in a clear, accessible style and rich in insight and understanding.' Kenneth Bartlett, The American Historical Review'This is a rich and engaging study. Not a history of Renaissance philosophy as such, it is, rather, an examination of the intellectual worlds of the fifteenth century and in particular of the dominant role of Latin.' Michael J. B. Allen, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Beginnings; 2. Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio; 3. The Italian Renaissance takes root in Florence; 4. Florentine humanism, translation, and a new (old) philosophy; 5. Dialogues, institutions, and social exchange; 6. Who owns culture? Classicism, institutions, and the vernacular; 7. Poggio Bracciolini; 8. Lorenzo Valla; 9. The nature of the Latin language: Poggio versus Valla; 10. Valla, Latin, Christianity, culture; 11. A changing environment; 12. Florence: Marsilio Ficino, I; 13. Ficino, II; 14. The voices of culture in late fifteenth-century Florence; 15. 'We barely have time to breathe'. Poliziano, Pico, Ficino, and the beginning of the end of the Florentine Renaissance; 16. Angelo Poliziano's Lamia in context; 17. Endings and new beginnings: the language debate.
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Cambridge University Press Aesthetics and Cognition in Kants Critical Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press The Philosophy of Gottlob Frege
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Cambridge University Press Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit A Critical Guide Cambridge Critical Guides
Book SynopsisHegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is a work with few equals in systematic integrity, philosophical originality and historical influence. This collection of essays, contributed by leading Hegel scholars, examines all aspects of the work, from its argumentative strategies to its continuing relevance to philosophical debates. The collection combines close analysis with wide-ranging coverage of the text, and also traces connections with debates extending beyond Hegel scholarship, including issues in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, ethics, and philosophy of religion. In showing clearly that we have not yet exhausted the Phenomenology's insights, it demonstrates the need for contemporary philosophers to engage with Hegel.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… the Phenomenology demands and indeed has elicited thoughtful interlocutors who must combine Hegel's own qualities - at once philosophically rigorous and focused, and also imaginative and comprehensive. The twelve contributors to Moyar and Quante's excellent volume are readers of just this variety. They wrestle with small portions of Hegel's challenging text and show how Hegel's insights can help advance and even transform our thinking about traditional philosophical problems … this volume is a considerable contribution to the ever-growing literature on Hegel's Phenomenology.' Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Substance, subject, system: the justification of science in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Dietmar H. Heidemann; 2. 'Science of the phenomenology of spirit': Hegel's program and its implementation Hans-Friedrich Fulda; 3. The Phenomenology of Spirit as a 'transcendentalistic' argument for a monistic ontology Rolf-Peter Horstmann; 4. Sense certainty and the 'this-such' Willem A. deVries; 5. From desire to recognition: Hegel's account of human sociality Alex Honneth; 6. 'Reason (...) apprehended irrationally': Hegel's critique of observing reason Michael Quante; 7. What is a 'shape of spirit?' Terry Pinkard; 8. Ethical life, morality, and the role of spirit in the Phenomenology Will Dudley; 9. Self-completing alienation: Hegel's argument of transparent conditions of free agency Dean Moyar; 10. Practical reason and spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Ludwig Siep; 11. Religion and demythologization in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Thomas A. Lewis; 12. A 'logic of experience' as 'absolute knowledge': on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Roger B. Pippin.
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Cambridge University Press Freedom and Anthropology in Kants Moral Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Hegels Philosophy of Reality Freedom and God
Book SynopsisThis book shows that the repeated announcements of the death of Hegel's philosophical system have been premature. Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom, Reality, and God brings to light accomplishments for which Hegel is seldom given credit, responding in a systematic manner to many of the criticisms leveled at his system.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… invaluable and highly original because of the extensive textual details with which it substantiates its reading … an exemplary apologetic for Hegel that is bound to receive a wide and close reading.' Karl Ameriks, University of Notre DameTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Naturalism, Plato, Kant, and Hegel on reason, freedom, responsibility, ethics, and God; 3. Reality, freedom and God; 4. Identity, contradiction, actuality, and freedom; 5. Freedom, God, and refutation of rational egoism; 6. Nature, freedom, ethics, and God; 7. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics
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Cambridge University Press The Psychology of Happiness
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Cambridge University Press Rene Descartes
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press John Locke and Modern Life
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Cambridge University Press Aristotle on Inquiry
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsches AntiDarwinism
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting Proclus From Antiquity to the Renaissance
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to Kants Moral Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press The Moral Basis of Burkes Political Thought An Essay
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Cambridge University Press The Science of Knowledge
Book SynopsisA modern translation of J. G. Fichte's best known philosophical work (including his two explanatory Introductions), which contributed to the development of 19th Century German Idealism from Kant's critical philosophy.Table of ContentsPreface; On the translation; Glossary; Introduction to the science of knowledge; Foundations of the entire science of knowledge; Preface; Part I. Fundamental Principles of the Entire Science of Knowledge: 1. First, absolutely unconditional principle; 2. Second principle, conditioned as to content; 3. Third principle, conditioned as to form; Part II. Foundation of Theoretical Knowledge: 4. First discourse; Part III. Foundation of Knowledge of the Practical: 5. Second discourse; 6. Third discourse; 7. Fourth discourse; 8. Fifth discourse; 9. Sixth discourse; 10. Seventh discourse; 11. Eighth discourse; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Meinong and the Principle of Independence Its Place in Meinongs Theory of Objects and its Significance in Contemporary Philosophical Logic Modern European Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Enlightenment in the National Context
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Cambridge University Press The Philosophical Writings of Descartes
Book SynopsisThese two 1985 volumes provide a translation of the philosophical works of Descartes, based on the best available Latin and French texts. They were intended to replace the only reasonably comprehensive selection of his works in English, by Haldane and Ross, first published in 1911.Trade Review"The translators deserve our appreciation, and everyone who studies or teaches Descartes--to any degree or at any level--should adopt their lucid rendition. We have a new industry standard." William Edward Morris, Teaching Philosophy.Table of ContentsGeneral introduction; Chronological table; 1. Early writings; 2. Rules for the direction of the mind; 3. The world; 4. Treatise on man; 5. Discourse on the method; 6. Optics; 7. Principles of philosophy; 8. Comments on a certain broadsheet; 9. Description of the human body; 10. The passions of the soul; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Alienation Marxs Conception of Man in a Capitalist Society Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
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Cambridge University Press Hegel
Book SynopsisA major and comprehensive study of the philosophy of Hegel, his place in the history of ideas, and his continuing relevance and importance. Professor Taylor relates Hegel to the earlier history of philosophy and, more particularly, to the central intellectual and spiritual issues of his own time. He sees these in terms of a pervasive tension between the evolving ideals of individuality and self-realization on the one hand, and on the other a deeply-felt need to find significance in a wider community. Charles Taylor engages with Hegel sympathetically, on Hegel's own terms and, as the the subject demands, in detail. We are made to grasp the interconnections of the system without being overwhelmed or overawed by its technicality. We are shown its importance and its limitations, and are enabled to stand back from it.Trade Review"Professor Taylor is a stimulating and lucid guide....His book is to be strongly recommended to anyone who wants to understand the origins and style and content of modern ideologies." The Economist"...the most important book on Hegel ever to appear in English." Journal of European StudiesTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I. The Claims of Speculative Reason: 1. Aims of a new epoch; 2. Hegel's itinerary; 3. Self-positing spirit; Part II. Phenomenology: 4. The dialectic of consciousness; 5. Self-consciousness; 6. The formation of spirit; 7. The road to manifest religion; 8. The Phenomenology as interpretive dialectic; Part III. Logic: 9. A dialectic of categories; 10. Being; 11. Essence; 12. The concept; 13. The idea in nature; Part IV. History and Politics: 14. Ethical substance; 15. Reason and history; 16. The realized state; Part V. Absolute Spirit: 17. Art; 18. Religion; 19. Philosophy; Part VI. Conclusion: 20. Hegel today; Biographical note; Bibliography; Index.
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