Hegel’s Encyclopedic System

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This book discusses the most comprehensive of Hegel’s works: his long-neglected Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline. It contains original essays by internationally renowned and emerging voices in Hegel scholarship. Their contributions elucidate fundamental aspects of Hegel’s encyclopedic system with an eye to its contemporary relevance. The book thus addresses system-level claims about Hegel’s unique conceptions of philosophy, philosophical "science" and its method, dialectic, speculative thinking, and the way they relate to both Hegelian and contemporary notions of nature, history, religion, freedom, and cultural praxis. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of contributors Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Hegel’s Science of Reason as a Science of Freedom: From Nuremberg to Heidelberg Chapter 3 Hegel’s Heidelberg Encyclopedia as the Principal Work of a Metaphysics of Geist Chapter 4 Philosophy as the Science of Freedom Chapter 5 Hegel’s System and the Negativity of Dialectics Chapter 6 The Encyclopedia System as a Form of Worship Chapter 7 Between Religion and the Empirical Sciences: Hegel’s Concept of Philosophical Science According to the Introduction to the Encyclopedia Chapter 8 Temporal Strata of Historical Experience in Hegel’s Encyclopedia Chapter 9 Hegel’s Logic as a System of Illegitimate Totalities Chapter 10 Nature’s Otherness: On the Status of Nature in Hegel’s Encyclopedic System Chapter 11 The Two Souls: Some Remarks on Hegel’s Investigation of ‘Soul’ in the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit and Philosophy of Nature Chapter 12 Truth and Method in the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences Chapter 13 Objective Geist Today Chapter 14 The Absolute Spirit as the Consummation of Hegel’s Concept of Truth Chapter 15 The Proximity of Philosophy to Religion: Hegel’s Evaluative Reason Chapter 16 Hegel’s Notion of Philosophy: The Concept-Based Unity of Self-Referential Universality and Differentiated Particularity Index