Hegel's Theory of Imagination
Title | Hegel's Theory of Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Ann Bates |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0791484459 |
Filling an important gap in post-Kantian philosophy, Hegel's Theory of Imagination focuses on the role of the imagination, and resolves the question of its apparent absence in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Jennifer Ann Bates discusses Hegel's theory of the imagination through the early and late Philosophy of Spirit lectures, and reveals that a dialectic between the two sides of the imagination (the "night" of inwardizing consciousness and the "light" of externalizing material) is essential to thought and community. The complexity and depth of Hegel's insights make this book essential reading for anyone seriously interested in understanding how central the imagination is to our every thought.
Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination
Title | Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Ann Bates |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 411 |
Release | 2010-09-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438432437 |
Study of self-consciousness in Hegel and Shakespeare.
The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism
Title | The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism PDF eBook |
Author | Gerad Gentry |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 2019-06-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107197708 |
Explores imagination and human rationality in a crucial period of philosophy, from hermeneutics and transcendental logic to ethics and aesthetics.
Art and the Absolute
Title | Art and the Absolute PDF eBook |
Author | William Desmond |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 246 |
Release | 1986-06-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438400926 |
Art and the Absolute restores Hegel's aesthetics to a place of central importance in the Hegelian system. In so doing, it brings Hegel into direct relation with the central thrust of contemporary philosophy. The book draws on the astonishing scope and depths of Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics, exploring the multifaceted issue of art and the absolute. Why does Hegel ascribe absoluteness to art? What can such absoluteness mean? How does it relate to religion and philosophy? How does Hegel's view of art illuminate the contemporary absence of the absolute? Art and the Absolute argues that these aesthetic questions are not mere theoretical conundrums for abstract analysis. It argues that Hegel's understanding of art can provide an indispensable hermeneutic relevant to current controversies. Art and the Absolute explores the intricacies of Hegel's aesthetic thought, communicating its contemporary relevance. It shows how for Hegel art illuminates the other areas of significant human experience such as history, religion, politics, literature. Against traditional, closed views, the result is a challenge to re-read Hegel's aesthetic philosophy.
Hegel: Faith and Knowledge
Title | Hegel: Faith and Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | G.W.F. Hegel |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 1988-03-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780887068263 |
As the title indicates, Faith and Knowledge deals with the relation between religious faith and cognitive beliefs, between the truth of religion and the truths of philosophy and science. Hegel is guided by his understanding of the historical situation: the individual alienated from God, nature, and community; and he is influenced by the new philosophy of Schelling, the Spinozistic Philosophy of Identity with its superb vision of the inner unity of God, nature, and rational man. Through a brilliant discussion of the philosophies of Kant, Fichte, and other luminaries of the period, Hegel shows that the time has finally come to give philosophy the authentic shape it has always been trying to reach, a shape in which philosophys old conflicts with religion on the one hand and with the sciences on the other are suspended once for all. This is the first English translation of this important essay. Professor H. S. Harris offers a historical and analytic commentary to the text and Professor Cerf offers an introduction to the general reader which focuses on the concept of intellectual intuition and on the difference between authentic and inauthentic philosophy.
Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit
Title | Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit PDF eBook |
Author | Peter G. Stillman |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780887064760 |
This book focuses on Hegel's philosophy of spirit, his major concept and the core of his mature system. It does not so much define Geist as it does illustrate its many forms and manifestations. It is a broad-ranging examination of Volume III of Hegel's Encyclopedia delineating his radical break with previous philosophy and illuminating the heart of his thought. Several themes recur: the meaning and content of recognition and intersubjectivity, religion, Hegel's predecessors, and his contemporary successors or contrasts. Hegel's intentions and his audacity are made both clear and sharp in this work.
Hegel's Critique of Metaphysics
Title | Hegel's Critique of Metaphysics PDF eBook |
Author | Béatrice Longuenesse |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 269 |
Release | 2007-05-03 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0521844665 |
Hegel's Science of Logic has received less attention than his Phenomenology of Spirit, but Hegel himself took it to be his highest philosophical achievement and the backbone of his system. The present book focuses on this most difficult of Hegel's published works. Béatrice Longuenesse offers a close analysis of core issues, including discussions of what Hegel means by 'dialectical logic', the role and meaning of 'contradiction' in Hegel's philosophy, and Hegel's justification for the provocative statement that 'what is real is rational, what is rational is real'. She examines both Hegel's debt and his polemical reaction to Kant, and shows in great detail how his project of a 'dialectical' logic can be understood only in light of its relation to Kant's 'transcendental' logic. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Hegel's philosophy and its influence on contemporary philosophical discussion.