Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronology of Hegel's life and work -- G.W.F. Hegel : an introduction to his life and thought / Stephen Houlgate -- Part I: Early writings. Religion, love, and law : Hegel's early metaphysics of morals / Katerina Deligiorgi -- Part II: Phenomenology of spirit. The project of Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit / John Russon ; Self-consciousness, anti-Cartesianism, and cognitive semantics in Hegel's 1807 Phenomenology / Kenneth R. Westphal ; Spirit as the "unconditioned" / Terry Pinkard -- Part III: Logic. Thinking being : method in Hegel's Logic of being / Angelica Nuzzo ; Essence, reflexion, and immediacy in Hegel's Science of logic / Stephen Houlgate ; Conceiving / John W. Burbidge -- Part IV: Philosophy of nature. Hegel and the sciences / Thomas Posch ; The transition to organics : Hegel's idea of life / Cinzia Ferrini -- Part V: Philosophy of subjective spirit. Hegel's solution to the mind-body problem / Richard Dien Winfield ; Hegel's Philosophy of language : the unwritten volume / Jere O'Neill Surber -- Part VI: Philosophy of right. Hegel on the empty formalism of Kant's categorical imperative / Sally Sedgwick ; The idea of a Hegelian "science" of society / Frederick Neuhouser ; Hegel's political philosophy / Allen W. Wood -- Part VII: Philosophy of history. "The ruling categories of the world" : the Trinity in Hegel's philosophy of history and the rise and fall of peoples / Robert Bernasconi ; Hegel and Ranke : a re-examination / Frederick C. Beiser -- Part VIII: Aesthetics. Hegel and the "historical deduction" of the concept of art / Allen Speight ; Soundings : Hegel on music / John Sallis -- Part IX: Philosophy of religion. Love, recognition, spirit : Hegel's philosophy of religion / Robert R. Williams ; Hegel's proofs of the existence of God / Peter C. Hodgson -- Part X: History of philosophy. Hegel's Aristotle : philosophy and its time / Alfredo Ferrarin ; From Kant's highest good to Hegel's absolute knowing / Michael Baur -- Part XI: Hegel and post-Hegelian thought. Hegel and Marx / Andrew Chitty ; Kierkegaard and Hegel on faith and knowledge / Jon Stewart ; Thinking of nothing : Heidegger's criticism of Hegel's conception of negativity / Daniel O. Dahlstrom ; Adorno's reconception of the dialectic / Brian O'Connor ; Hegel and pragmatism / Robert Stern ; The analytic neo-Hegelianism of John McDowell and Robert Brandom / Paul Redding ; Diff̌érance as negativity : the Hegelian remains of Derrida's philosophy / Karin de Boer ; You be my body for me : body, shape, and plasticity in Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit / Catherine Malabou and Judith Butler.

This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays that cover the whole range of Hegel's mature thought and his lasting influence. A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophersEssays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most up-to-date Hegel researchContributions are drawn from across the world and from a wide variety of philosophical approaches and traditionsExamines Hegel's influence on a range of thinkers, from Kierkegaard and Marx to Heidegger, Adorno and DerridaBegins with a chronology of Hegel's life and work and is then split into.

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