Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences: A Critical Guide

Description

Hegel regarded his Enyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences as the work which most fully presented the scope of his philosophical system and its method. It is somewhat surprising, therefore, that scholars regularly accord it only a secondary status. This Critical Guide seeks to change that, with sixteen newly-written essays from an international group of leading Hegel scholars that shed much-needed light on both the whole and the parts of the Encyclopedia system. Topics include the structure and aim of the Encyclopedia system as a whole, the differences between the greater and lesser Logics, the role of nature in Hegel's thinking, and the shapes of absolute spirit as art, religion, and philosophy. This book will be invaluable to students and scholars with an interest in Hegel and the history of philosophy.

Sebastian Stein is Stipendiary Researcher at Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg. He is co-editor of Hegel's Political Philosophy (with Thom Brooks, 2017) and Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy (with James Gledhill, 2019), and is the author of several journal articles and book chapters on post-Kantian idealism, Aristotle and Hegel. Joshua Wretzel is Assistant Teaching Professor at Pennsylvania State University. He has published numerous articles on the German philosophical tradition in journals including the European Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Research and Hegel Bulletin.