Tag: religion
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Hegel and the French Revolution: Essays on the Philosophy of Right
Joachim Ritter’s Hegel and the French Revolution is an analysis of Hegel’s political philosophy, a work that dissects the contours of modernity through the lens of Hegel’s thought. These essays, originally part of Metaphysik und Politik, are a demonstration of philosophical clarity and historical sensitivity, addressing the relationship between Hegel’s speculative concepts and the socio-political…
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Leo Strauss on Hegel
Leo Strauss on Hegel, edited by Paul Franco, is best approached as a carefully prepared aperture onto Strauss’s most sustained confrontation with Hegelian philosophy, one in which the familiar antitheses of ancient and modern, reason and history, faith and politics, are pressed to their limits within the concrete discipline of a seminar that reads Hegel’s…
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Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History
In Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History, Michael Allen Gillespie offers a key examination of the philosophical underpinnings of the concept of history, engaging with the seminal works of Hegel and Heidegger to explore the most fundamental and often elusive questions about human existence, freedom, and the trajectory of civilization. This is an expansive…
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‘Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit ’ by Martin Heidegger
In Martin Heidegger’s 1930-1931 lecture course on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, we encounter not merely a reading of Hegel, but an intense and fundamental engagement with the very movement of thinking that animates Hegel’s dialectic. Heidegger, whose own philosophical project aimed to dismantle and reconstruct the history of ontology through the lens of temporality, delivers…
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Hegel and Speculative Realism
In Hegel and Speculative Realism, Charles William Johns undertakes an ambitious philosophical endeavor that traverses the vast conceptual landscapes of speculative realism and Hegelian philosophy, probing the limits of metaphysical thought in contemporary discourse. The book pursues two central objectives: first, to interrogate speculative realism’s conceptualizations of the “real”—a reality withdrawn, contingent, and infused with…
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Schelling and Spinoza: Realism, Idealism, and the Absolute
Schelling and Spinoza: Realism, Idealism, and the Absolute by Benjamin Norris is a rigorous philosophical excavation of the intersection between Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s transcendental and speculative idealism and Baruch Spinoza’s rationalist metaphysics. This work reconstructs Schelling’s engagement with Spinoza’s substance monism to illuminate the persistent philosophical tensions between realism and idealism that animate Schelling’s…
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Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity
Brady Bowman’s Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity delivers a rigorous examination of the very essence of Hegelian philosophy, offering a study of Hegel’s doctrine of absolute negativity and the Concept (der Begriff) as the pivotal elements that animate his dialectical system. These doctrines are not only Hegel’s most original contributions but also the…
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Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique
William F. Bristow’s Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique offers an analysis of the epistemological confrontation between Hegel and Kant, one that defines one of the most consequential moments in the history of modern European philosophy. In this rigorous study, Bristow examines Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit as a bold response to, and transformation of,…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Universal Reconciliation: Logic as Form of the World
Hegel’s Philosophy of Universal Reconciliation: Logic as Form of the World by Stephen Theron represents a culmination of a presentation of Hegel’s theology and metaphysics, positioned as the final entry in a series dedicated to Hegel as theologian. This series, inaugurated with New Hegelian Essays (2012) and developed through From Narrative to Necessity (2012) and…
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The Dialectical Method: A Treatise Hegel Never Wrote
Clark Butler’s The Dialectical Method: A Treatise Hegel Never Wrote constitutes an ironically reasoned, deeply scholarly, and conceptually ambitious effort to elucidate, systematize, and formalize the elusive essence of Hegel’s dialectical method. At once keenly analytic and historically aware, Butler’s work seeks to fill a conspicuous lacuna in Hegel’s oeuvre, wherein the German philosopher never…
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‘Civilization and Its Discontents’ by Sigmund Freud
Civilization and Its Discontents, translated by David McLintock, is of Sigmund Freud’s most well-known and troubling meditations on the precarious balance between the individual psyche and the communal demands of modern society. In this pivotal work, first published in 1930, Freud considers the vast historical struggle that has led human beings into forms of collective…
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The Ages of the World (1811)
This extraordinary volume presents the earliest existing draft of F. W. J. Schelling’s The Ages of the World (Die Weltalter) from 1811, translated and introduced by Joseph P. Lawrence. It is a document of immeasurable significance for those who would understand not just Schelling’s philosophical evolution and the epoch of German Idealism, but also the…
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Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism by Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson offers a deeply layered, contextualized, and philosophical analysis of a historical encounter that still reverberates through contemporary intellectual landscapes. Within its pages, readers are confronted with the dynamics between a revolutionary upheaval in late 1970s Iran—one charged…
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The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters
In Slavoj Žižek’s The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters, the reader is immediately drawn into a staggeringly complex, exhaustively intricate, and conceptually vertiginous philosophical essay that seeks to re-locate Schelling—so often overshadowed by the towering figures of Kant and Hegel—at the very center of a tradition stretching from the ancient materialists, through Marx,…
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Normativity and the Will: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Practical Reason
Normativity and the Will by R. Jay Wallace is a remarkable engagement with some of the most pressing and conceptually subtle issues at the intersection of ethical theory, moral psychology, and the theory of practical reason. In this volume, Wallace collects fourteen of his own seminal essays, each of which provides a robust philosophical framework…
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Hegel and Theology
In Hegel and Theology, Martin J. De Nys offers a philosophically charged reading of the complex relation between Hegel’s philosophy of religion and the contemporary theological imagination, a meditation that demands a careful and extended reflection on the proper place and function of religious thought in a world shaped by both the Enlightenment’s critical legacy…
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Hegel and Ancient Philosophy: A Re-Examination
Glenn Alexander Magee’s Hegel and Ancient Philosophy: A Re-Examination is a scholarly endeavor that analyses the relationship between Hegel’s philosophy and ancient thought. This extensive volume gathers original essays from leading scholars who explore Hegel’s debts to ancient philosophers, as well as critically assess his interpretations, which are often as provocative as they are insightful.…
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G.W.F. Hegel: The Jena System, 1804-5: Logic and Metaphysics
The Jena System, 1804-5: Logic and Metaphysics” by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel presents his early philosophical development during his tenure at the University of Jena. This work, edited and translated by John W. Burbidge and George di Giovanni, offers invaluable insight into the evolution of Hegel’s thought, particularly regarding the nature of logic and its…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Science of Logic | George Di Giovanni Translation
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s The Science of Logic, in this Cambridge translation by George Di Giovanni, is a monumental work in the annals of Western philosophy, representing both the culmination of classical metaphysics and a crucial reconfiguration of philosophical thought. This comprehensive edition brings together the revised Book I from 1832, along with Books II…
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Picturing Hegel: An Illustrated Guide to Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Logic
Picturing Hegel: An Illustrated Guide to Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Logic by Julie E. Maybee is a groundbreaking work that breathes new life into G.W.F. Hegel’s notoriously dense and challenging Encyclopaedia Logic. Maybee created an ambitious project to demystify Hegel’s philosophical system by employing diagrams and illustrations, offering a novel approach that caters to both newcomers and…
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Hegel: Political Writings
Hegel: Political Writings, edited by Lawrence Dickey and H. B. Nisbet, is an indispensable volume that offers a presentation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s political philosophy beyond his renowned Philosophy of Right. This collection gathers Hegel’s most significant political writings, providing readers with unparalleled access to both the practical and metaphysical dimensions of his thought.…
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Essays on Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
David S. Stern’s Essays on Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit is a scholarly investigation into one of the least explored but one of the most intricate aspects of Hegelian thought: the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit. This volume, the first English-language collection of its kind, does not merely seek to resurrect a neglected area of Hegel’s…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit, edited and introduced by Michael John Petry, spans three volumes exploring human experience, self-realization, and the dialectical development of spirit as outlined in this bilingual edition of the first part of Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Each volume unfolds Hegel’s philosophy of subjective spirit, tracing its progression toward self-knowledge…
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Metaracial: Hegel, Antiblackness, and Political Identity
In Metaracial: Hegel, Antiblackness, and Political Identity, Rei Terada initiates an ambitious critical inquiry into the contours and limitations of antiracist philosophy, dissecting the intersection of Hegel’s thought, antiblackness, and the evolution of political identity in modernity. Terada’s project delves into Hegel’s adaptation of racial hierarchy into an ontological framework of differing stances toward reality,…
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La conciencia infeliz: Ensayo sobre la filosofía de la religión de Hegel
In La conciencia infeliz: Ensayo sobre la filosofía de la religión de Hegel, Antonio Escohotado explores Hegel’s complex philosophy of religion, situating the religious consciousness within the broader dialectic of philosophical and historical consciousness. Escohotado confronts Hegel’s idea of “unhappy consciousness” as a distinctively human existential state—a paradoxical blend of longing and estrangement in which…
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Le idee migliorano. Origini e presupposti della Storia della filosofia di Hegel (1650-1827)
Roberto Bordoli’s Le idee migliorano. Origini e presupposti della Storia della filosofia di Hegel (1650-1827) is a compelling exploration of the development of the history of philosophy as an autonomous discipline and Hegel’s approach to it, steeped in a historical and ethical consciousness that reflects the intellectual evolution of modern Europe. Bordoli positions the history…
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Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim
In Diagnosing Social Pathology, Frederick Neuhouser presents a philosophical analysis of societal dysfunction, engaging with complex questions about whether and how societies, like biological organisms, might be understood as being “ill” or “diseased.” This ambitious work brings together Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim, philosophers not typically considered as part of a single tradition, to examine…
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Indagini su Hegel
In Indagini su Hegel (Investigations on Hegel), Benedetto Croce crafts a philosophical dialogue that transcends mere critique to explore the tensions and affinities between his own intellectual journey and that of Hegel. Centered on a fictional encounter between Hegel and a Neapolitan admirer, Francesco Sanseverino, Croce’s novella is a masterful blend of historical reflection and…
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From Apparent to True Knowledge (Wissen): Hegel on Concept Acquisition and Object Constitution in the ›Phenomenology of Spirit‹
From Apparent to True Knowledge by Rolf-Peter Horstmann is an analisys of the processes underlying Hegel’s epistemology. Horstmann goes into the transitions between various configurations of consciousness and spirit in Hegel’s seminal work, positing that these transitions are fundamentally grounded in a unique semantic theory. By providing a detailed analysis of this theory, he reconstructs…
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L’essere come ritorno. Il concetto di riflessione nella filosofia di Hegel
Being as Return: The Concept of Reflection in Hegel’s Philosophy by Michele Capasso is an exhaustive and incisive exploration of one of the most pivotal concepts in Hegelian philosophy—the concept of reflection. Capasso illuminates the significance of reflection in the unfolding of the Idea and its essential role in the dialectical movement that characterizes Hegel’s…
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Hegel, Heidegger, and the Quest for the “I”: Prolegomena to a Philosophy of the Self
Hegel, Heidegger, and the Quest for the “I”: Prolegomena to a Philosophy of the Self by Paolo Diego Bubbio is a rigorous examination of the elusive nature of the “I” within the philosophical frameworks of G.W.F. Hegel and Martin Heidegger. Bubbio explores the ways both philosophers grapple with the concept of selfhood, moving beyond the…
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Justice and Freedom in Hegel
Justice and Freedom in Hegel, edited by Paolo Diego Bubbio and Andrew Buchwalter, is an analysis of the relationship between justice and freedom within the practical philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. This volume explores the pivotal concept of reciprocal recognition, illuminating how Hegel’s treatment of justice and freedom offers a robust framework for addressing…
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Contradiction Resolves Itself
Contradiction Resolves Itself: An Analysis of the Arguments in the Chapter ‘The Essentialities or the Determinations of Reflection’ in Hegel’s Doctrine of Essence by Folko Zander is an analysis of one of the most challenging and pivotal aspects of Hegelian philosophy: the concept of contradiction. Zander, a distinguished scholar in Classical German Philosophy with doctorates…
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Sadra and Hegel on Metaphysical Essentialism
Sadra and Hegel on Metaphysical Essentialism by Kamal Abdul Karim Shlbei is a comparative study that examines and compares the philosophies of Mulla Sadra, a pivotal figure in Islamic philosophy, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a cornerstone of Western philosophical thought. The book presents the accounts of the relationship between essence and existence as represented…
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Michel Foucault: La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel
The Constitution of a Historical Transcendental in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit by Michel Foucault is the analysis of Hegelian philosophy through the lens of a young philosopher deeply immersed in the intellectual currents of his time. Defended on June 11, 1949, as his master’s thesis in philosophy at the Sorbonne under the supervision of Jean…
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Hegel on Sacred Poetry: Love, Freedom, and the Practical Roots of the Sublime
In Hegel on Sacred Poetry: Love, Freedom, and the Practical Roots of the Sublime, Víctor Ibarra B. offers a reexamination of Hegel’s theory of the sublime, focusing on what he identifies as its core element: the sacred poetry of the Judaic Psalms. Challenging the prevailing scholarly view that Hegel showed little interest in the notion…
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Vom Problem eine Schreibfeder zu deduzieren: Erkenntnistheoretische Einordnung des Einzelnen bei Hegel
In Vom Problem eine Schreibfeder zu deduzieren: Erkenntnistheoretische Einordnung des Einzelnen bei Hegel (On Deducing a Pen from the Problem: Epistemological Classification of the Individual in Hegel), Nina Lott engages in a detailed philosophical investigation that centers on a seemingly trivial but philosophically rich challenge first raised by Wilhelm Traugott Krug. Krug’s assertion that everything…
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Individuum und Geist: G.W.F. Hegels Aufbruch in die Moderne
In Individuum und Geist: G.W.F. Hegels Aufbruch in die Moderne (Individual and Spirit: G.W.F. Hegel’s Departure into Modernity), Eva von Grafenstein makes a critical and deeply reflective examination of the oft-criticized relationship between the individual and Hegel’s philosophical system, focusing particularly on an area of Hegel’s thought that has remained underappreciated: the Philosophy of Subjective…
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Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter: Hegel, Beckett und ihre Zumutungen
Ludwig Pfeiffer’s Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter: Hegel, Beckett und ihre Zumutungen (What Remains, However, Are Created by the Poets: Hegel, Beckett, and Their Demands) is a key philosophical reflection that explores the complex and often fraught relationship between philosophy and literature. Anchored in the intellectual context of early modern Europe, where the proliferation…
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Hegel über Leben und Natur: Sinn und Aktualität
In Hegel über Leben und Natur: Sinn und Aktualität (Hegel on Life and Nature: Meaning and Relevance), Taiju Okochi offers an expansive exploration of two seemingly disparate, yet deeply interconnected, terms in Hegel’s philosophy: Leben (life) and Natur (nature). These notions, which at first glance might appear unrelated or even oppositional within Hegel’s comprehensive system,…
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Hegel lesen und verstehen: Eine Einführung
Reiner Ruffing’s Hegel lesen und verstehen: Eine Einführung is an insightful attempt to make the dense and challenging philosophical system of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel accessible to a broader audience. Aimed at those seeking a structured entry point into Hegel’s complex thought, this book offers a clear and methodical approach, tackling both Hegel’s biography and…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gesammelte Werke
The historical-critical Academy edition of G.W.F. Hegel’s Gesammelte Werke (Collected Works) is the scholarly edition that encompasses the entirety of Hegel’s preserved works. This comprehensive project provides an authoritative resource on Hegel’s major writings, establishing a milestone in philosophical scholarship. It includes both published volumes and those forthcoming, aiming to cover everything from Hegel’s published…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie IV, Gesammelte Werke, 30,4
Hegel’s Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie IV (Lectures on the History of Philosophy IV) is a volume of Gesammelte Werke (Collected Works) documenting Hegel’s winter semester lectures of 1827/28 on the history of philosophy. This work, derived from the surviving transcripts of Alexander Hueck and August Diecks, with additional fragments from the lost transcript…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie des Rechts IV, Gesammelte Werke, 26,4
This volume, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie des Rechts IV: Anhang (Lectures on the Philosophy of Right IV: Appendix), serves as a supplementary text to Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Right, providing an addition to Hegel’s lectures on law, ethics, and the state. As the concluding fourth volume to the three-part edition (GW 26,1–3), it…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Natur III, Gesammelte Werke, 24,3
This third volume of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature presents a critical and comprehensive edition of secondary sources compiled by Hegel’s disciple, Carl Ludwig Michelet, who added significant supplementary material to the second part of Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830). In previous volumes, all known student transcripts from Hegel’s Berlin lectures on natural philosophy…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Natur II, Gesammelte Werke, 24,2
This volume presents Hegel’s in-depth lectures on the Philosophy of Nature, offering insight into his unique approach in contrast to Schelling’s philosophy of nature. The lectures documented here span two significant periods during Hegel’s time in Berlin: the winter semester of 1825/26 and the summer semester of 1828. The winter lectures are captured in Moritz…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Wissenschaft der Logik. Erster Band. Die Lehre vom Sein (1832), Gesammelte Werke, 21
This volume presents the second edition of the first part of Hegel’s Science of Logic, specifically The Objective Logic, Volume I: The Doctrine of Being, as part of the Academia study edition in the historical-critical edition of the Gesammelte Werke (Collected Works). It includes extensive editor’s notes, bibliographical references, and translations for quotations in classical…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungsmanuskripte I (1816-1831), Gesammelte Werke, 17
This work presents an in-depth exploration of the Philosophy of Religion, one of the key areas of Hegel’s thought. These are lecture manuscripts organized into three major parts, examining religion from its fundamental concept to its most developed, revealed forms. Part One delves into the concept of religion, providing a general definition, a scientific approach…
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An Introduction to Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: The Issue of Religious Content in the Enlightenment and Romanticism
Jon Stewart’s An Introduction to Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion serves as both closer look and a guiding text into one of the most challenging areas of Hegelian philosophy: his philosophy of religion. Stewart’s book is more than an introduction, it’s a carefully constructed exposition of Hegel’s thoughts on the nature, role, and…
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Introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion
Raymond K. Williamson’s Introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion delivers an in-depth exploration of how Hegel’s unique conception of religion intertwines with his entire philosophical project, especially his doctrine of God and the notion of absolute Spirit. This work presents the complex ways in which Hegel positions religion and philosophy as sharing a singular, ultimate…
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