The Problem of Nature in Hegel’s Final System

Wes Furlotte (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3553-6 (ISBN)

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Wes Furlotte critically evaluates Hegel’s philosophy of human freedom in terms of his often-disregarded conception of nature. In doing so, he gives us a new portrait of Hegel’s final system that is surprisingly relevant for our contemporary world, connecting it with recent work in speculative realism and new materialism.
Furlotte offers a sophisticated sense of the fundamental materialism permeating Hegel’s concept of freedom and how the former serves as the inescapable precondition of subjectivity and social history. He also reveals how material nature and culture’s reactions to it problematize human freedom – even threaten it with utter annihilation. This book forces us to reconsider accepted accounts of Hegel’s system and to re-evaluate what Hegel, and German Idealism, might still offer us today.

Wes Furlotte is Professor of Philosophy at Dominican University College and part-time Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. Specialising in German idealism and 19th- and 20th-century European thought, he has published on problems in ontology, epistemology and socio-political philosophy.

Introduction: The Problem of a Philosophical Rendering of Nature and Hegel’s Philosophy of the Real

Part I: ‘Gleaming leprosy in the sky’

1. The ‘Non-Whole’ of Hegelian Nature: Extrinsicality and the Problems of Sickness and Death

2. The Instability of Space-Time and the Contingency of Necessity

3. The Problem of Nature’s Spurious Infinite within the Register of Animal Life

4. Assimilation and the Problems of Sex, Violence, and Sickness unto Death

Part II: Spirit’s Birth from within the Bio-Material World

5. The Other Hegel: The Anthropology and Spirit’s Birth from within the Bio-Material World

6. Embodiment: Spirit, Material–Maternal Dependence, and the Problem of the in utero

7. The Nightmare of Reason and Regression into the Night of the World

8. Treatment as (re-)Habituation: From Psychopathology to (re-)Actualised Subjectivity

Part III: The Problem of Surplus Repressive Punishment

9. An Introduction to the Problem of Surplus Repressive Punishment

10. Abstract Right: Natural Immediacy within the Matrices of Personhood

11. Crime, the Negation of Right, and the Problem of European Colonial Consciousness

12. Surplus Repressive Punishment and Spirit’s Regressive (de-)Actualisation

Conclusion: Freedom within Two Natures, or, the Nature–Spirit Dialectic in the Final System

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Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	New Perspectives in Ontology
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	565 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-4744-3553-X / 147443553X
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3553-6 / 9781474435536
Zustand	Neuware