Wes Furlotte

Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Wes Furlotte critically evaluates Hegel's philosophy of human freedom in terms of his often-disregarded conception of nature. In doing so, he gives us a new portrait of Hegel's final system that is surprisingly relevant for our contemporary world, connecting it with recent work in speculative realism and new materialism.

Furlotte offers a sophisticated sense of the fundamental materialism permeating Hegel's concept of freedom and how the former serves as the inescapable precondition of subjectivity and social history. He also reveals how material nature and culture's reactions to it problematize human freedom - even threaten it with utter annihilation. This book forces us to reconsider accepted accounts of Hegel's system and to re-evaluate what Hegel, and German Idealism, might still offer us today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474435567
• Artikelnr.: 72413008

Autorenporträt

Wes Furlotte is Professor of Philosophy at Dominican University College and part-time Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. Specialising in German idealism and 19th- and 20th-century European thought, he has published on problems in ontology, epistemology and socio-political philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Problem of a Philosophical Rendering of Nature and Hegel's Philosophy of the Real
Part I: 'Gleaming leprosy in the sky'
1. The 'Non-Whole' of Hegelian Nature: Extrinsicality and the Problems of Sickness and Death
2. The Instability of Space-Time and the Contingency of Necessity
3. The Problem of Nature's Spurious Infinite within the Register of Animal Life
4. Assimilation and the Problems of Sex, Violence, and Sickness unto Death
Part II: Spirit's Birth from within the Bio-Material World
5. The Other Hegel: The Anthropology and Spirit's Birth from within the Bio-Material World
6. Embodiment: Spirit, Material-Maternal Dependence, and the Problem of the in utero
7. The Nightmare of Reason and Regression into the Night of the World
8. Treatment as (re-)Habituation: From Psychopathology to (re-)Actualised Subjectivity
Part III: The Problem of Surplus Repressive Punishment
9. An Introduction to the Problem of Surplus Repressive Punishment
10. Abstract Right: Natural Immediacy within the Matrices of Personhood
11. Crime, the Negation of Right, and the Problem of European Colonial Consciousness
12. Surplus Repressive Punishment and Spirit's Regressive (de-)Actualisation
Conclusion: Freedom within Two Natures, or, the Nature-Spirit Dialectic in the Final System
Bibliography
Index.