Hegel's hermeneutics

Autor*innen

• Paul Redding

Parameter

• Philosophie

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This book advances recent revisionist interpretations of Hegelian philosophy, presenting Hegel's work as a revolutionary modernization of ancient thought initiated by Kant. Paul Redding argues that Hegel's application of hermeneutics, a new way of objectively understanding intentional human subjects, addressed the major challenges Kant faced in modernizing philosophy. This led to the establishment of a genuinely modern, hermeneutic, and "nonmetaphysical" philosophy. Redding describes Hegel's achievement as a development of Kant's philosophical revolution, akin to the "Copernican" shift in modern science. He highlights how the heterodox pantheistic views and hermeneutic social thought of the late eighteenth century created a fertile ground for the evolution of Kantian idealism in the works of Schelling and early Hegel. Redding contends that Hegel transcended Schelling's pantheistic metaphysics through the Phenomenology of Spirit, establishing a postmetaphysical hermeneutic philosophy. He also connects Hegel's social theory in the Philosophy of Right and the conceptual frameworks of the Science of Logic to the hermeneutic insights from the Phenomenology. This perspective clarifies Hegel's analyses of modernity and the modern state, offering a coherent framework that surpasses the views of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in modern social and political thought.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Einband: Hardcover