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Title: Hegel's Idealism : The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness by Robert B. Pippin ISBN: 0-521-37923-7 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 24 February, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Summary: The standard for all future English language interpretations
Comment: An outstanding achievement. This book has been profoundly influential in contemporary Hegel scholarship, outlining a new and exciting strategy for defending the Hegelian project against its many critics.
Pippin's main interpretive contribution is to take seriously Hegel's claim that his philosophy is properly conceived of as a completion of the Kantian Critical project: the attempt to defend substantive metaphysical conclusions without dogmatism. In so doing, Pippin seeks to put to rest the age old accusation that Hegel's philosophy marks a return the pre-Kantian (or "pre-Critical") metaphysics which Kant justifiably criticizes in the Critique of Pure Reason.
In the course of developing this interpretive line, Pippin backs off strong claims for the necessity of dialectical transitions and develops a somewhat 'deflationary' interpretation of the so-called "absolute knowledge" which is supposedly legitimated at the end of the dialectic. Instead of understanding the result of the dialectical argument as a Table of Categories (a la Kant), Pippin argues that what gets "absolutized" is the dialectical method itself. I.e., Pippin argues that the dialectic of the Phenomenology defends an account of the necessary conditions for the possibility of account giving, not an account of the necessary conditions for the possibility of experience. In so doing, Pippin also reinterprets the significance of Hegel's famous End of History claim: what has come to an end is not the history of different models of experience or reality, but the history of how it is that we seek to these models.
Pippin's book is composed of three sections: the first traces the development of Hegel's philosophy out of trends and difficulties implicit within the Kantian and post-Kantian German Idealist tradition; the second develops a sophisticated interpretation of Hegel's most influential work, The Phenomenology of Spirit; and the third shows how the philosophical approach which Hegel develop in the Phenomenology informs his mature science (e.g., the Encyclopedia and the Science of Logic).
Pippin's book proceeds at a high level of philosophical sophistication and demands a lot from the "lay reader"; but its rewards are equal to the labors it demands. It is of relevance to anyone interested in German Idealism, phenomenology, the history of European philosophy, questions about the limits of reason, the philosophy of the subject, or the modern/post-modern debate.
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Title: Hegel's Phenomenology : The Sociality of Reason by Terry Pinkard ISBN: 052156834X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 26 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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Title: Phenomenology of Spirit by A.V. Miller, Georg Wilhelm Friedri Hegel, A. V. Miller, J. N. Findlay ISBN: 0198245971 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 1979 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: German Philosophy 1760-1860 : The Legacy of Idealism by Terry Pinkard ISBN: 0521663814 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 29 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Hegel by Charles Taylor ISBN: 0521291992 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 12 May, 1977 List Price(USD): $33.00 |
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Title: Hegel by Terry Pinkard ISBN: 0521003873 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 18 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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