Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences: A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides)

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Hegel regarded his Enyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences as the work which most fully presented the scope of his philosophical system and its method. It is somewhat surprising, therefore, that scholars regularly accord it only a secondary status. This Critical Guide seeks to change that, with sixteen newly-written essays from an international group of leading Hegel scholars that shed much-needed light on both the whole and the parts of the Encyclopedia system. Topics include the structure and aim of the Encyclopedia system as a whole, the differences between the greater and lesser Logics, the role of nature in Hegel's thinking, and the shapes of absolute spirit as art, religion, and philosophy. This book will be invaluable to students and scholars with an interest in Hegel and the history of philosophy. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Contributors Introduction Chapter 1 - Logical and Natural Life: One Aspect of the Relation between Hegel’s Science of Logic and His Encyclopedia Chapter 2 - Hegel’s Encyclopedia as the Science of Freedom Chapter 3 - Essence in Hegel’s Encyclopedia and Science of Logic: The Problem of Form Chapter 4 - The Concept’s Freedom Chapter 5 - From Logic to Nature Chapter 6 - Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature: The Expansion of Particularity as the Filling of Space and Time Chapter 7 - Hegel’s Anthropology: Transforming the Body Chapter 8 - Hegel’s Critique of Materialism Chapter 9 - Hegel’s Psychology: The Unity of Theoretical and Practical Mind Chapter 10 - Political Ontology and Rational Syllogistic in Hegel’s Objective Spirit Chapter 11 - Taking the System Seriously: On the Importance of “Objective Spirit” for Hegel’s Philosophy of Right Chapter 12 - §§556–63: Art as a Form of Absolute Spirit: The Discursive, the Non-discursive, the Religious, and the Political Chapter 13 - The Stubbornness of Nature in Art: A Reading of §§556, 558 and 560 of Hegel’s Encyclopedia Chapter 14 - The Encyclopedia’s Notion of Religion Chapter 15 - Absolute Geist or Self-Loving God?: Hegel and Spinoza on Philosophy Bibliography Index Series Page (continued)