The Bloomsbury companion to Hegel

List of Contributors ; Acknowledgements ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction / Allegra de Laurentiis and B. Jeffrey Edwards -- 1. Hegel's Path to the System : 1.1 TÜbingen, Bern and Frankfurt: 1788-1800 / Martin Bondeli ; 1.2 The Jena Years: 1801-1806 / Martin Bondeli ; 1.3 The Phenomenology of Spirit of 1807: a Conspectus / Kenneth R. Westphal -- 2. The System of Philosophy : 2.1 The Introductions to the System / Ardis Collins ; 2.2 Science of Logic / Michael Wolff ; 2.3 Philosophy of Nature / Dieter Wandschneider ; 2.4 Transition to Spirit / Cinzia Ferrini ; 2.5 Subjective Spirit: Soul, Consciousness, Intelligence and Will / Willem deVries ; 2.6 Objective Spirit: Right, Morality, Ethical Life and World History / Italo Testa ; 2.7 Absolute Spirit: Art, Religion and Philosophy / Walter Jaeschke -- 3. Substantive and Interpretive Questions. 3.1 Logic - Nature - Spirit / Michael J. Inwood ; 3.2 System and History / Angelica Nuzzo ; 3.3 Concept, Object, and Absolute Idea / Burkhard Tuschling ; 3.4 Determination, Determinacy / Michael J. Inwood ; 3.5 Thinking and Knowing / Marina Bykova ; 3.6 Mediation and Immediacy / Marina Bykova ; 3.7 Truth / George di Giovanni ; 3.8 Spirit, Consciousness, Self-Consciousness / Michael J. Inwood ; 3.9 Reason and Understanding / Michael J. Inwood ; 3.10 The Finite and the Infinite / Angelica Nuzzo ; 3.11 Moment / George di Giovanni ; 3.12 Negativity, Negation / George di Giovanni ; 3.13 Identity and Contradiction / George di Giovanni ; 3.14 Will and Freedom / Marina Bykova -- 4. Hegel's Forms of Argument. 4.1 Scepsis and Scepticism / Italo Testa ; 4.2 Dialectic Manfred Baum ; 4.3 Proof, Justification, Refutation / Kenneth R. Westphal -- 5. Hegel's Philosophical Influence. 5.1 Feuerbach, Bauer, Marx and Marxisms / Tom Rockmore ; 5.2 Hegel and Analytic Philosophy / Paul Redding ; 5.3 Hegel in France / Tom Rockmore ; 5.4 Marx's Hegelian Project and World History / Fred E. Schrader -- 6. Chronologies. 6.1 Notable Dates in Hegel's Life / Kenneth R. Westphal ; 6.2 Writings, Publications and Berlin Lecture Series / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Selected Bibliography -- Analytical Index of Subjects -- Index of Names.

This international collaborative project on G. W. F. Hegel's philosophy includes contributions by eighteen scholars of 18th to 20th century philosophy. It will be an essential reference tool for students and scholars of modern philosophic thought in general and of 19th century German thought in particular. The first part of the volume examines Hegel's early writings up to and including the 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit . The second part is devoted to Hegel's major mature works and lectures as well as to the primary themes of his system of philosophy. It opens with a comprehensive account of Heg