Book description
This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays
that cover the whole range of Hegel's mature thought and his lasting influence.
- A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophers
- Essays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most
up-to-date Hegel research
- Contributions are drawn from across the world and from a wide
variety of philosophical approaches and traditions
- Examines Hegel's influence on a range of thinkers, from
Kierkegaard and Marx to Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida
- Begins with a chronology of Hegel's life and work and is then
split into sections covering topics such as Philosophy of Nature,
Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Religion
Stephen Houlgate
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the
author of
Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics
(1986),
An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History
(1991, 2005) and
The Opening of Hegel's Logic: From Being to Infinity
(2006), and his edited volumes include
Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature
(1998),
The Hegel Reader
(1998), and
G. W.F. Hegel: Outlines of the Philosophy of Right
(2008). He has served as Vice President and President of the Hegel
Society of America and is a former editor of the
Bulletin of the
Hegel Society of Great Britain
.
Michael Baur is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham
University in New York City, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham
Law School. He is Secretary of the Hegel Society of America and has
published widely on phenomenology, critical theory, philosophy of law,
and nineteenth-century continental philosophy, and on thinkers
including Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Aristotle, and Aquinas.
