The Idealism of Freedom: For a Hegelian Turn in Philosophy

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42926-0
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB

Buch, Deutsch, Band 26, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 484 g

Reihe: Critical Studies in German Idealism

In The Idealism of Freedom, Klaus Vieweg argues for a Hegelian turn in philosophy. Hegel’s idealism of freedom contains a number of epoch-making ideas that articulate a new understanding of freedom, which still shape contemporary philosophy. Hegel establishes a modern logic, as well as the idea of a social state. With his distinction between civil society and the state he makes an innovative contribution to political philosophy. Hegel defends the idea of freedom for all in a modern society and is a sharp critic of every nationalism and racism. Vieweg’s study introduces these ideas into perspectives on freedom in contemporary philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vieweg, Klaus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Deutscher Idealismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART 1

On the Fundament of Hegel’s Philosophy

1 Hegel’s Adventures in Wonderland, or the Beginning of Philosophy
1 With What Must the Science Begin?

2 Mediation or Immediacy

3 The Beginning of Practical Philosophy

4 Conclusion

2 Hegel’s Sicilian Defence: Beyond Realism and Constructivism

1 The Logic of Essence

2 Immanent Negativity

3 Conclusion

3 The “Reversal of Consciousness Itself”: Along the Path of the Phenomenology of Spirit

1 Reversals

2 Conclusion

4 Pyrrho and the Wisdom of the Animals: Hegel on Scepticism

1 Pyrrhonism – Freedom of Character and Freedom of Thought

2 Happy and Unhappy Consciousness

3 The Unity of the Theoretical and Practical Idea

4 Ataraxia and Conscience

PART 2

Hegel’s Practical Philosophy as a Philosophy of Freedom

5 Hegel’s Theory of Free Will

1 The Foundational Structure of the Will - §§5–7

2 Conclusion

6 Inter-Personality and Wrong

1 The Concept of the Person

2 Personality and Inter-Personality – Recognition of the Person and Legal Capacity

3 Wrong and the Theory of ‘Second Coercion’

4 The Logically Grounded Structure in Judgment

7 Care and Forethought: The Idea of Sustainability in Hegel’s Practical Philosophy

1 Property

2 Property and the ‘Formation’ of the Natural

3 The Appropriation of Elemental Things

4 ‘Forethought Which Looks to, and Secures, the Future’

5 Natural Sustainability – the Forest as Paradigm

8 Hegel’s Philosophical Theory of Action

1 Crime and Punishment – the Eumenides and Hegel’s Grounding of Punishment in the Theory of Action

2 Orestes and Oedipus – Heroic Self-Consciousness and Modernity

9 Beyond Wall Street: Hegel as Founder of the Concept of a Welfare State

1 Civil Society as Modern Community of Market, Education and Solidarity

2 All-round Dependence in the ‘Community of Need and Understanding’

3 Political Economy and the Regulated Market

4 Regulation and Social Organization

5 Oversight and External Regulation

6 Social Care and Forethought – Foundations of Hegel’s Conception of a Social State

10 The State and Its Logical Foundations

1 The State as a Whole Consisting of Three Syllogisms

2 The State as a Triad of Syllogisms

3 The Inner Law of the State or Domestic Right – the Second System of Three Syllogisms

4 A New Conception of the Separation and Interdependence of State Powers

5 The Constitution as a System of Three Syllogisms – a Reformulation of the Philosophy of Right

6 The State as a System of Three Syllogisms – against the Letter of the Philosophy of Right

7 The Universal, Law-Making Power – the Syllogism of Necessity (P-U-I)

8 The Categorical Syllogism

9 The Hypothetical Syllogism

10 The Disjunctive Syllogism

11 The Right of Resistance

1 Considerations on the Right of Necessity

2 The Concept of Second Coercion

3 The Stages of the Inversive Right of Resistance

4 Conclusion: State of Exception and Second Coercion

Part 3

Hegel on Art and Religion

12 Hegel’s Conception of the Imagination

1 Imagination and Mind

2 From Intuition to Representation

3 Representation

13 The World Turned Upside Down

1 Reversals as Fantasy Castlings

2 Narrating Lives and Journeys ‘Downhill’

3 Free hystera protera: Scepticism – Music – Carnival – Politics

4 Closing Remarks, or: Endgame

14 On Hegel’s Humour

1 Negativity and Humour

2 The Victory of Subjectivity

15 Religion and Absolute Knowing

1 Basic Determinations of the Transition

2 Core Determinations of the Turning Point of the Transition, the Final Return out of the Realm of Representation

3 Freedom and Comprehensive Thought

16 The East and Buddhism from Hegel’s Perspective

1 The First ‘Translation’: That of Antiquity

2 The Second ‘Translation’: Modernity

3 Religion and Philosophy – Imagination and Concept

4 Buddhism as a Religion of Silent Being-in-itself

5 Freedom from Oneself and the Beautiful Soul

6 The East and Modern Poetry

7 Brief Resumé

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Klaus Vieweg, PhD. (1980), is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jena. Among his publications is the commentary on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (Fink, 2013), the commentary of Phänomenologie des Geistes (Suhrkamp, 2008) and the new biography Hegel. Der Philosoph der Freiheit (C.H. Beck, 2019).