Hegel’s Discovery of the Philosophy of Spirit

Autonomy, Alienation, and the Ethical Life: The Jena Lectures 1802–1806

  • Pini Ifergan
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Part of the Renewing Philosophy book series (REP)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction
    Pini Ifergan
    Pages 1-13
  3. What Motivated Hegel’s Philosophical Project?
    Pini Ifergan
    Pages 14-61
  4. The First Systematic Attempt to Conceptualize the Critique of Culture
    Pini Ifergan
    Pages 62-115
  5. Jena Lectures 1803/1804
    Pini Ifergan
    Pages 116-156
  6. Jena Lectures 1805/1806
    Pini Ifergan
    Pages 157-226
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 227-253
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About this book

Introduction

This exploration of Hegel's critique of the individualistic ethos of modernity and the genesis of his alternative vision traces the conceptual schemes Hegel experimented with to show how he settled on the concepts of 'ethical life' (Sittlichkeit) and Spirit as the means for overcoming subjectivity and domination.

Keywords

GWF Hegel The Jena Writings Alienation Ethical Life Philosophy of Spirit Fichte Hölderlin Modernity Tragedy autonomy concept consciousness critique culture ethics Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Hegel individual philosophy subject

Authors and affiliations

  • Pini Ifergan
    • 1
  1. 1.Bar Ilan UniversityIsrael

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137302137
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-45377-1
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-30213-7
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