Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness - Softcover

Pippin, Robert B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521379237 ISBN 13: 9780521379236

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Synopsis

This is the most important book on Hegel to have appeared in the past ten years. The author offers a completely new interpretation of Hegel's idealism that focuses on Hegel's appropriation and development of Kant's theoretical project. Hegel is presented neither as a pre-critical metaphysician nor as a social theorist, but as a critical philosopher whose disagreements with Kant, especially on the issue of intuitions, enrich the idealist arguments against empiricism, realism, and naturalism. In the face of the dismissal of absolute idealism as either unintelligible or implausible, Pippin explains and defends an original account of the philosophical basis for Hegel's claims about the historical and social nature of self-consciousness and of knowledge itself.

About this title

Book Description:

Hegel is presented as a critical philosopher whose disagreements with Kant only enhance the idealist arguments against empiricism, realism and naturalism in this original interpretation.

About the Author:

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0521379237
• ISBN 13: 9780521379236
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340