Synopses & Reviews
This is a 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 engages with Hegel sympathetically, on Hegel's own terms and, as the subject demands, in detail. This important book is now reissued with a fresh new cover.
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"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
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"...the most important book on Hegel ever to appear in English." Journal of European Studies
Synopsis
A major and comprehensive study of the philosophy of Hegel, his place in the history of ideas, and his continuing relevance and importance. Charles Taylor relates Hegel to the earlier history of philosophy and, more particularly, to the central intellectual and spiritual issues of his own time.
Table of Contents
Preface 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.