Hegel and the Future of Systematic Philosophy

227 Pages·2014·1.31 MB·English

by  Richard Dien Winfield

Hegel and the Future of Systematic Philosophy
Also by Richard Dien Winfield
AUTONOMY AND NORMATIVITY:
Investigations of Truth, Right and Beauty (2001)
FREEDOM AND MODERNITY (1991)
FROM CONCEPT TO OBJECTIVITY:
Thinking Through Hegel’s Subjective Logic (2006)
HEGEL AND MIND:
Rethinking Philosophical Psychology (2010)
HEGEL’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT:
A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures (2013)
HEGEL’S SCIENCE OF LOGIC:
A Critical Rethinking in Thirty Lectures (2012)
LAW IN CIVIL SOCIETY (1995)
MODERNITY, RELIGION, AND THE WAR ON TERROR (2007)
OVERCOMING FOUNDATIONS:
Studies in Systematic Philosophy (1989)
THE JUST ECONOMY (1988)
THE JUST FAMILY (1998)
THE JUST STATE:
Rethinking Self-Government (2005)
THE LIVING MIND:
From Psyche to Consciousness (2011)
REASON AND JUSTICE (1988)
STYLISTICS:
Rethinking the Artforms after Hegel (1996)
SYSTEMATIC AESTHETICS (1995)
Hegel and the Future of
Systematic Philosophy
Richard Dien Winfield
Distinguished Research Professor,
University of Georgia, USA
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Contents
Acknowledgments v iii
Introduction x
Part I Phenomenology and Logic
1 Is Phenomenology Necessary as Introduction to Philosophy? 3
2 Negation and Truth 20
3 How Should Essence Be Determined? Reflections on
Hegel’s Two Divergent Accounts 32
4 The Objectivity of Thought 45
5 Being and Idea 5 7
6 Truth, the Good, and the Unity of Theory and Practice 68
7 The End of Logic 83
Part II Nature and Humanity
8 The Logic of Nature 103
9 The Limits of Intersubjectivity in Hegel’s Philosophy
of Subjective Spirit 1 17
10 Economy and Ethical Community 131
11 The Challenge of Political Right 145
12 The Normativity of Globalization 159
13 Literary Form and Civilization 174
Notes 1 88
Works Cited 2 02
Index 2 05
vii
Acknowledgments
The following chapters incorporate text that was previously published
and/or delivered at conference meetings.
Chapter 1 incorporates text published as “Is Phenomenology Necessary
as Introduction to Philosophy?,” R eview of Metaphysics, December 2011,
LXV, no. 2, issue 258: 1–19.
Chapter 2 incorporates text delivered at the Metaphysical Society
of America Annual Meeting, Boston, March 6, 2010, and published as
“Negation and Truth,” R eview of Metaphysics, December 2010, LXIV,
no. 2, issue 254: 273–89.
Chapter 3 incorporates text delivered at the Society for Systematic
Philosophy group meeting, APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco,
April 6, 2007, and published as “How Should Essence Be Determined?
Reflections on Hegel’s Two Divergent Accounts,” I nternational
Philosophical Quarterly 48, no. 2, issue 190 (June 2008): 187–99.
Chapter 4 incorporates text delivered at the 30th International Hegel
Congress, Vienna, April 25, 2014.
Chapter 5 incorporates text delivered at the Metaphysical Society
of America Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia, March 11, 2012, and
published as “The Objectivity of Thought: A Hegelian Meditation,”
Philosophical Forum , Winter 2013: 329–39.
Chapter 6 incorporates text delivered at the Metaphysical Society of
America Annual Meeting, Holy Cross University, Worcester, MA, April
13, 2013, and published as “Truth, the Good, and the Unity of Theory
and Practice,” Review of Metaphysics , December 2013: 405–22.
Chapter 7 incorporates text delivered at the Society for Systematic
Philosophy group meeting, American Philosophical Association Eastern
Division Meeting, New York City, December 28, 2009, and published as
“The End of Logic,” Idealistic Studies 41, no. 3, Fall 2011: 135–48.
Chapter 8 incorporates text delivered at the Society for Systematic
Philosophy group meeting, American Philosophical Association Central
Division Meeting, Chicago, February 16, 2012, and published as “The
Logic of Nature,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 27, no. 2, 2013:
172–87.
Chapter 9 incorporates text delivered at the International Conference
on Hegel’s Thought in the Age of Globalization, University of Urbino,
Italy, June 4, 2010, and published in Italian translation as “I Limiti
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Acknowledgments ix
dell’Intersoggettività nella Filosofia Hegeliana dello Spirito Soggettivo,”
in G. Rinaldi, ed., Il pensiero di Hegel nell’Età della globalizzazione (Rome:
Aracne, 2012), pp. 203–21.
Chapter 10 incorporates text delivered at the 22nd Biennial Meeting
of the Hegel Society of America, DePaul University, Chicago, October
27, 2012, and published as “Economy and Ethical Community,” in H egel
and Capitalism (Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming).
Chapter 11 incorporates text published as “The Challenge of Political
Right,” Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain , no. 65, 2012: 61–74.
Chapter 12 incorporates text delivered at the International Conference
on Hegel’s Thought in the Age of Globalization, University of Urbino,
Italy, June 4, 2010, and published in Italian translation as “La Normatività
della Globalizzazione,” in G. Rinaldi, ed., I l pensiero di Hegel nell’Età della
globalizzazione (Rome: Aracne, 2012), pp. 281–99.
Chapter 13 incorporates text published as “Literary Form and
Civilization,” in Literature and Philosophy: Essaying Connections, ed.
Supriya Chaudhuri (Calcutta: Papyrus, 2006), pp. 46–62.
I thank the editors, journals, and publishers listed above for their
permissions.