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Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit has been one of the most important works of philosophy since the nineteenth century, while the question of energy has been crucial to life in the twenty-first century. In this book, Michael Marder integrates the two, narrating a story about the trials and tribulations of energy embedded in Hegel's dialectics.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I. Prolegomena to the Dialectics of Energy
  • Part II. The Phenomenology of Spirit & the Question of Energy: An Exegesis
  • Introduction: The Energy of Cognition
  • A. “Mere” Consciousness and Its Energy Deficit
  • 1. Sense-certainty: “this is,” “I am”… but all “this” “is” not energy
  • 2. Perception: the non-actual reality of seeing without seeing oneself see
  • 3. Force and understanding: literally crystal-clear and unburdened by the energy of thinking
  • B. Self-consciousness and Its Surplus Energy
  • 4. The truth of self-certainty: beyond the living energy of life
  • C. Reason and the Self-Limitation of Energy
  • 5. The certainty and truth of reason: reality rediscovered
  • Notes
  • Index

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      Publisher Northwestern University Press
      Published 30 May 2021
      ISBN-13 9780810143395
      978-0810143395
      ISBN-10 0810143399
      Also in:
      Phenomenology and Existentialism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit has been one of the most important works of philosophy since the nineteenth century, while the question of energy has been crucial to life in the twenty-first century. In this book, Michael Marder integrates the two, narrating a story about the trials and tribulations of energy embedded in Hegel's dialectics.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Part I. Prolegomena to the Dialectics of Energy
      • Part II. The Phenomenology of Spirit & the Question of Energy: An Exegesis
      • Introduction: The Energy of Cognition
      • A. “Mere” Consciousness and Its Energy Deficit
      • 1. Sense-certainty: “this is,” “I am”… but all “this” “is” not energy
      • 2. Perception: the non-actual reality of seeing without seeing oneself see
      • 3. Force and understanding: literally crystal-clear and unburdened by the energy of thinking
      • B. Self-consciousness and Its Surplus Energy
      • 4. The truth of self-certainty: beyond the living energy of life
      • C. Reason and the Self-Limitation of Energy
      • 5. The certainty and truth of reason: reality rediscovered
      • Notes
      • Index

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