We are glad to give notice of the release of the volume Interpreting Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: Expositions and Critique of Contemporary Readings, edited by Ivan Boldyrev and Sebastian Stein (Routledge, 2022).

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From the publisher’s website:

This book focuses on the interpretations of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit that have proved influential over the past decades. Current readers of Hegel’s Phenomenology face an abundance of interpretive literature devoted to this difficult text and confront a plethora of different philosophical presuppositions, research strategies and hermeneutic efforts.To enable a better orientation within the interpretative landscape, the essays in this volume summarize, contextualize and critically comment on the issues and currents in contemporary Phenomenology scholarship. There is a common set of three questions that each of the contributions seeks to answer: (1) What kind of text is The Phenomenology of Spirit? (2) What do the different strategies of interpretation conceptually bring to the text? (3) How do different interpreters justify their verdict on whether the Phenomenology is still a viable project?

 

Below you can find the Table of Contents:

 

Introduction: On Meta-Readings (Sebastian Stein and Ivan Boldyrev)

1. Heidegger on the beginning of Hegel’s Phenomenology (Ioannis Trisokkas)

2. “Now is the night”: deixis in Hegel and Maldiney (Anna Yampolskaya)

3. Truth and (its) appearance in Hegel’s Phenomenology: Brandom, Pippin and Houlgate on Geist and consciousness (Sebastian Stein)

4. Masters, Slaves, and Us: The Ongoing Allure of the Struggle for Recognition (Mariana Teixeira)

5. McDowell’s Rejection of Recognition-Based Readings of Hegel in Chapter Four of the Phenomenology of Spirit (Paul Redding)

6. Self-consciousness and Alienation. The young Marx’ Reception of Hegel’s master-slave-dialectic (Pablo Pulgar Moya)

7. Hegel on Death (Michael Inwood)

8. “Heroism without Fate, Self-Consciousness without Alienation”: Antigone, Trust and the Narrative Structure of Spirit (Allen Speight)

9. Hegel vs. Subjective Duties and External Reasons: Recent Readings of “Morality” and “Conscience” in the Phenomenology of Spirit (Sebastian Ostritsch)

10. On Comay on Hegel (Gunnar Hindrichs)

11. Religion in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Lee Watkins)

12. Hegel’s Art-Religion in the Phenomenology of Spirit and Beyond (Sven-Olov Wallenstein)

13. Absolute Mapping. Jameson’s Variations on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Jamila Mascat)

14. The Last Sigh of Absolute Knowledge: Schiller’s Friendship and Hegel’s Readers (Ivan Boldyrev)

 

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