Hegel and the Other, livre ebook

A new, highly accessible commentary on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

A new, highly accessible commentary on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

This volume by Philip J. Kain is one of the most accessibly written books on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit available. Avoiding technical jargon without diluting Hegel's thought, Kain shows the Phenomenology responding to Kant in far more places than are usually recognized. This perspective makes Hegel's text easier to understand. Kain also argues against the traditional understanding of the absolute and touches on Hegel's relation to contemporary feminist and postmodern themes.

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Introduction: Structure and Method of the Phenomenology
1. Consciousness and the Transcendental Deduction

I. Kant's Transcendental Deduction
II. Sense-Certainty
III. Perception
IV. Force and the Understanding
2. Self-Consciousness and the Other

I. Self-Consciousness
II. Lordship and Bondage
III. Theory and the Object
IV. Theory and Power
V. Stoicism and the Flight from Heteronomy
VI. Scepticism and the Attack on the Transcendental Self
VII. Unhappy Consciousness and the Highest Good
3. Reason in the World
Part A. Theoretical Reason

I. Affirmation of Idealism
II. Inner and Outer
III. Physiognomy and Phrenology
Part B. Practical Reason

IV. Pleasure and Necessity
V. The Law of the Heart
VI. Virtue and the Way of the World
Part C. Individuality that Takes Itself to Be Real In and For Itself

VII. The Spiritual Animal Kingdom and Deceit, or the Fact Itself
VIII. Reason as Lawgiver
IX. Reason as Testing Laws
4. Culture and Reality

I. The Transcendental Deduction and Culture
II. The Ethical Order, Women, and Oppression
III. Legal Status and the Emperor
IV. Culture and Estrangement
V. Enlightenment's Attack on Belief
VI. Reason, Revolution, and Terror
VII. Phenomenology or History?
VIII. Morality and the Final Purpose
5. Culture, Religion, and Absolute Knowing

I. Religion
II. Alienation and Estrangement Overcome
III. The Absolute and Its Deduction
IV. A Culturally Relative Absolute
V. Hegel's Ethnocentrism and Racism
VI. Cultural Relativism and Truth
Notes
Bibliography
Index