Table of Contents

Part I. Philosophy and History in Hegel: 1. Why does it matter for Hegel that Geist has a history? John McDowell; 2. Remarks on history, contingency, and necessity in Hegel's Science of Logic Sally Sedgwick; 3. Philosophy and the stream of cultural history Ludwig Siep; Part II. Aristotelian Master and Stoic Slave: 4. From epistemic incorporation to cognitive transformation Paul Redding; 5. Freedom, norms, and nature in Hegel: Self-Legislation or Self-Realization Robert Stern; 6. The form of self-consciousness Terry Pinkard; 7. Hegel on objects as subjects Rolf-Peter Horstmann; 8. The historical turn and late modernity Karl Ameriks; Part III. Hegel and After: 9. Autonomy and liberation: the historicity of freedom Christoph Menke; 10. Three, not two, concepts of liberty: a proposal to enlarge our moral self-understanding Axel Honneth; 11. 'Our amphibian problem': nature in history in Adorno's Hegelian Critique of Hegel Jay Bernstein; 12. Comedy between the ugly and the sublime Slavoj Žižek; 13. The Freudian sabbath Jonathan Lear; Bibliography.

Promotional Information

This book investigates Hegel's historical conception of philosophy: as built upon and reviving prior views, and as speaking to its historical context.

About the Author

Rachel Zuckert is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, Illinois. James Kreines is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, California.