The Palgrave Hegel Handbook, 1st ed. 2020 Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism Series

This handbook presents the conceptions and principles central to every aspect of Hegel?s systematic philosophy. In twenty-eight thematically linked chapters by leading international experts, The Palgrave Hegel Handbook provides reliable, scholarly overviews of each subject, illuminates the main issues and debates, and details concisely the considered views of each contributor. Recent scholarship challenges traditional, largely anti-Kantian, readings of Hegel, focusing instead on Hegel?s appropriation of Kantian epistemology to reconcile idealism with the rejection of foundationalism, coherentism and skepticism. Focused like Kant on showing how fundamental unities underlie the profusion of apparently independent events, Hegel argued that reality is rationally structured, so that its systematic structure is manifest to our properly informed thought. Accordingly, this handbook re-assesses Hegel?s philosophical aims, methods and achievements, and re-evaluates many aspects of Hegel?s enduring philosophical contributions, ranging from metaphysics, epistemology, and dialectic, to moral and political philosophy and philosophy of history. Each chapter, and The Palgrave Hegel Handbook as a whole, provides an informed, authoritative understanding of each aspect of Hegel?s philosophy.

Part I: Intellectual Background and Philosophical Porject.- 1. Hegel: His Life and His Path in Philosophy. Marina F. Bykova.- 2. Situating Hegel. From Transcendental Philosophy to a Phenomenology of Spirit. Michael Baur.- 3. Kant, Hegel and the Historicity of Pure Reason. Kenneth R. Westphal.- 4. Hegel’s Epistemology. Giuseppe Varnier.- Part II: Phenomenology of Spirit.- 5. The Role of Religion in Hegel’s Phenomenological Justification of Philosophical Science. Ardis B. Collins.- 6. Absolute Spirit in Performative Self-relation of Persons. Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer.- 7. Individuality and Human Sociality. Individualism and our Human Zoôn Politikon. Kenneth R. Westphal.- Part III: Science of Logic and System of Philosophy.- 8. Method in Hegel’s Dialectic-Speculative Logic. Angelica Nuzzo.- 9. Aufhebung, John W. Burbidge.- 10. Freedom as Belonging: A Defence of Hegelian Holism. Henry M. Southgate.- Part IV: Philosophy of Nature.- 11. Levels of Reality or Development? Hegel’s Realphilosophie and Philosophy of the Sciences. Michael Wolff.- 12. Causality, Natural Systems &hegel's Organicism, Kenneth R. Westphal.- 13. Hegel’s Philosophy of Natural and Human Spaces.  Cinzia Ferrini.- Part V: Philosophy of Spirit.- 14. Embodied Cognition, Habit, and Natural Agency in Hegel’s Anthropology. Italo Testa.- 15. Sentience and Feeling in the Anthropology. Allegra de Laurentiis.- 16. Intuition, Representation, and Thinking. Hegel’s Psychology and the Placement Problem. Markus Gabriel.- 17. Hegel on Poetry, Prose and the Origin of the Arts. Allen Speight.- 18. Hegel’s Recasting of the Theological Proofs. Robert R. Williams.- Part VI: Practical and Political Philosophy.- 19. Logic and Social Theory: Hegel on the Conceptual Significance of Political Change. Christopher L. Yeomans.- 20. Sittlichkeit and the Actuality of Freedom. On Kant and Hegel. Christian H. Krijnen. 21. Speculative Institutionalism. Hegel’s Legacy for Any Political Economy that Will Be Able to Present Itself As a Science. Ivan Boldyrev. 22. Hegel’s Philosophy of Bildung. Marina F. Bykova.- Part VII: Philosophy of World History and History of Philosophy.- 23. Hegel’s Philosophy of World History. Andreas Arndt.- 24. Freedom and the Logic of History. Simon Lumsden.- 25. History of Philosophy in Hegel’s System. Nelly V. Motroshilova.- Part VIII: Hegelianism and Post-Hegelian Thought.- 26. Hegel and Recent Analytic Metaphysic. Paul Redding.- 27. Hegel’s Pragmatism. Willem de Vries.- 28. The “Pittsburgh” Neo-Hegelianism of Robert Brandom and John McDowell. Paul Redding.- Part IX: Chronologies.

Marina F. Bykova is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, USA. She is the author of Hegel’s Interpretation of Thinking (1990), The Mystery of Logic and the Secret of Subjectivity (1996), and co-author (with Andrei Krichevsky) of Absolute Idea and Absolute Spirit in Hegel's Philosophy (1993). She is also the editor of Russian translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (2000) and most recently of Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit: Cambridge Critical Guide (2019) and The German Idealism Reader: Ideas, Responses and Legacy (forthcoming in 2020).

Kenneth R. Westphal is Professor of Philosophy at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. He has published widely on Kant’s and Hegel’s theoretical and practical philosophies, both systematically and historically. His books include Kant’s Transcendental Proof of Realism (2004) Grounds of Pragmatic Realism: Hegel’s Internal Critique & Transformation ofKant’s Critical Philosophy (2017), and Hegel's Civic Republicanism: Integrating Natural Law with Kant's Moral Constructivism (forthcoming 2020).