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12We are concerned in this essay with the experience of religion in the Phenomenology, or, more precisely, with the concept of religion which we (the philosophers) construct on the basis of that experience. Religion is the theme of Chapter VII, and there the transition is made to the concept of absolute knowledge which is the object of the concluding Chapter VIII. But the phenomenon of religion has in fact been present from the beginning, and we already witness it in full-blown form at the end of Chapter VI, in an experience which we might call 'thanksgiving', where 'confession'and 'forgiveness' play a central role.'Confession'and 'forgiveness' entail a special social compact. Just why (review)In Kenneth R. Westphal (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
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32Hegel's Phenomenology and the Critique of the Enlightenment. An Essay in InterpretationLaval Théologique et Philosophique 51 (2): 251-270. 1995.
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48Freedom and Religion in Kant and His Immediate Successors: The Vocation of Humankind, 1774–1800Cambridge University Press. 2005.The theologians of the late German Enlightenment saw in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason a new rational defence of their Christian faith. In fact, Kant's critical theory of meaning and moral law totally subverted the spirit of that faith. This challenging new study examines the contribution made by the Critique of Pure Reason to this change of meaning. George di Giovanni stresses the revolutionary character of Kant's critical thought but also reveals how this thought was being held hostage to unwa…Read more
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28A Second Note Regarding the Recent Translation of Hegel's "Greater Logic"The Owl of Minerva 47 (1/2): 169-170. 2015.
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44On Hegel’s Logic, Fragments of a Commentary (review)The Owl of Minerva 14 (1): 1-6. 1982.This is good news for those of us who have tried for years to teach Hegel’s Logic only to discover each time that by the end of term we have not gone past the first few pages. We have finally a book on which we can rely to lead our students through the intricacies of at least some of its sections. Burbidge’s handling of the parts of the Logic which he has singled out for his commentary is detailed, lucid, accurate, and penetrating. For this reason alone his book will no doubt become standard ref…Read more
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27On Kantianism as a New Form of Cultural ClericyIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 635-690. 2013.
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43Jacobi and Reinhold in the Spotlight: A Report on Two Recent ConferencesThe Owl of Minerva 34 (1): 127-131. 2002.Two conferences recently held in Europe, one on Reinhold and the other on Jacobi, reflect this new development. Both testify to the present high degree of maturity reached by the scholarship on the subject. In both, the two philosophers finally emerge as figures spanning the distance between the late Aufklärung and the nineteenth century. In some respects, Jacobi and Reinhold are closer in mental attitudes to our contemporary world than any of the idealists. So far as the present writer is conce…Read more
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47The Tenth Biennial Meeting of the Hegel Society of AmericaThe Owl of Minerva 20 (1): 114-115. 1988.The meeting was held in Chicago from Friday, October 7 to Sunday, October 9, 1988, and was hosted by Loyola University. About 80 members and friends of the Society attended. The topic of discussion was the greater Logic.
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5Sacramentalizing the World: On Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre of 1810Fichte-Studien 31 219-233. 2007.
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47Das Problem der Subjektivitat in Hegels Logik, Hegel-Studien (review)The Owl of Minerva 11 (1): 1-6. 1979.Heinz Kimmerle’s dating in 1967 of the Jena writings [“Zur Chronologie von Hegels Jenaer Schriften”, Hegel-Studien, 4, 125–176.] which definitely places at 1804–05 the fragment of a Reinschrift on Logic, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Nature previously thought to belong, on the authority of Rosenkranz, to the earlier Frankfurt period, throws a new light on the development of Hegel’s thought during the crucial Jena years. The fact that, throughout that period, Hegel was so much concerned with the …Read more
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21Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1998.Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by …Read more
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50An Interpretation of the Logic of Hegel (review)The Owl of Minerva 16 (2): 221-224. 1985.It is difficult to pass a simple judgment on this latest commentary on Hegel’s Logic. Its aim, as stated in the preface
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1Werner Marx, The Philosophy of FWJ Schelling: History, System, and Freedom Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 5 (10): 462-463. 1985.
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1The first twenty years of critique: the Spinoza connectionIn Paul Guyer (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Kant, Cambridge University Press. 1992.
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166Faith Without Religion, Religion Without Faith: Kant and Hegel on ReligionJournal of the History of Philosophy 41 (3): 365-383. 2003.The World, understood as a system of meaningful relations, is for Hegel the exclusive product of the human mind. In this, Hegel stands together with Kant in direct opposition to the Christian metaphysical tradition, according to which reality reflects God's ideas. For both Kant and Hegel, faith and religion therefore acquire new meaning. Yet, that meaning is just as different for each with respect to the other as it is for both with respect to the Christian tradition. This paper explores these d…Read more
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54Karin de Boer, On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (1). 2011.
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5Freedom and Religion in Kant and his Immediate Successors: The Vocation of Humankind, 1774–1800Cambridge University Press. 2005.The theologians of the late German Enlightenment saw in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason a new rational defence of their Christian faith. In fact, Kant's critical theory of meaning and moral law totally subverted the spirit of that faith. This challenging new study examines the contribution made by the Critique of Pure Reason to this change of meaning. George di Giovanni stresses the revolutionary character of Kant's critical thought but also reveals how this thought was being held hostage to unwa…Read more
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1Andre Wylleman, ed., Hegel on the Ethical Life, Religion, and Philosophy (1793-1807) Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 9 (12): 503-505. 1989.
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17Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel AllwillMcgill-Queen's University Press. 1994.This scholarly edition is the first extensive English translation of Jacobi's major literary and philosophical classics. A key but somewhat eclipsed figure in the German Enlightenment, Jacobi had an enormous impact on philosophical thought in the later part of the eighteenth century, notably the way Kant was received And The early development of post-Kantian idealism. Jacobi's polemical tract Concerning the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Herr Moses Mendelssohn propelled him to notoriety in 17…Read more
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J. N. Findlay, Kant and the Transcendental Object (review)Société Française de Philosophie, Bulletin 78 (4): 491. 1987.
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54The Young Hegelians; An Anthology (review)The Owl of Minerva 16 (1): 80-83. 1984.It is not just rhetoric to ask why we should still be reading the Young Hegelians today. In spite of their commitment to action, their influence on the politics of the times was marginal at best; and even as philosophers, the movement of thought which they represented was all but dead by 1848. Now that we read them at a distance of over a century, it is clear that for once at least the fate meted out by circumstances was well deserved. The writings of the Young Hegelians appear painfully thin in…Read more
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