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25Essays on Hegel’s Logic (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1990.These essays, offered as an introduction to this central piece of Hegel's system, pose in different ways, and with different degrees of explicitness, the question of whether, and how, the logic provides a closure to the system.
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3Reflection and Contradiction: A Commentary on Some Passages of Hegel's Science of Logic'Hegel-Studien 8 131-62. 1973.
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51A Reply to Critics of In Defense of Kant’s ReligionFaith and Philosophy 29 (2): 210-228. 2012.In this essay, I reply to the above four critics of In Defense of Kant’s Religion (IDKR). In reply to George di Giovanni, I highlight the interpretive differencesthat divide the authors of IDKR and di Giovanni, and argue that di Giovanni’s atheist reading of Kant does not follow, even granting his premises. In reply to Pamela Sue Anderson, I show that if her reading of Kant is accurate, Kant’s own talk of God becomes empty and contemptible by his own lights, and I then show how her empirical bia…Read more
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53Jewish and Post-Christian Interpretations of HegelThe Owl of Minerva 40 (2): 221-237. 2009.Despite the radically different interests that motivate Emil Fackenheim’s and Henry Harris’s respective interpretations of Hegel, the two have significant points of commonality. They in fact come the closest precisely at points where they seem to differ most. The need and the possibility of ‘reconciliation’ is the theme that animates both interpretations, and both also agree in their assessment of Hegel’s treatment of ‘evil.’ There are nevertheless crucial differences separating the two, which t…Read more
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27Hegel, Nature and the Rationalization of Experience: On Allen Wood's Hegel's Ethical ThoughtDialogue 32 (4): 783-. 1993.It is a curious feature of Hegelian studies in English that its practitioners seem incapable of tackling their subject without first disclaiming any adherence to the more metaphysical side of Hegel's thought, be it called “speculative metaphysics,” “dialectical logic” or whatever. I say “curious” because I doubt that the same scholars would feel obliged to enter an equivalent disclaimer at the head of a study on, say, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza or even Newton—even though all of these classics…Read more
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1Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Science of Logic (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.This translation of The Science of Logic includes the revised Book I, Book II and Book III. Recent research has given us a detailed picture of the process that led Hegel to his final conception of the System and of the place of the Logic within it. We now understand how and why Hegel distanced himself from Schelling, how radical this break with his early mentor was, and to what extent it entailed a return to Fichte and Kant. In the introduction to the volume, George Di Giovanni presents in synop…Read more
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69Frederick C. Beiser, "The Fate of Reason. German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 27 (2): 314. 1989.
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10Sacramentalizing the World: On Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre of 1810Fichte-Studien 31 219-233. 2007.
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44Consciousness and Reality (review)The Owl of Minerva 9 (1): 2-5. 1977.The reader of Joseph Navickas’s recent book will be disappointed if he expects the author to keep the promise made in the note on the back cover: “The book combines a textual analysis with a new constructive interpretation of the Phenomenology.” And the note goes on to say, “The complete working out of the notion of subjectivity requires a re-examination of the phenomenological transitions and a re-investigation of some allegedly insignificant achievements of the subject.” In point of fact there…Read more
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45Paragraphs 20 and 26 of the Transcendental Deduction (Second Edition of the Critique)Idealistic Studies 10 (2): 131-145. 1980.Whether transcendental arguments are possible or not is a question that has received wide attention in the analytical literature of recent years. It is important to distinguish carefully, however, between Kant’s own Transcendental Deduction and the kind of reasoning which has lately been dubbed “transcendental.” Eva Schaper has accurately defined the difference some years ago. The “transcendental arguments” to which we have recently been accustomed are arguments that seek to establish the logica…Read more
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39The Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel AllwillPhilosophical Review 105 (2): 248. 1996.Jacobi’s importance in the history of German philosophy has long been recognized. Yet his writings have been little studied in the English-speaking world, mainly because very few of them have been translated. George di Giovanni’s translation and edition of some of Jacobi’s main philosophical writings now fills this serious gap. This is the first major scholarly edition in English of Jacobi’s writings. The quality of the translation and the editing set a high standard for future work. Giovanni’s …Read more
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87Kant's metaphysics of nature and Schelling's Ideas for a Philosophy of NatureJournal of the History of Philosophy 17 (2): 197-215. 1979.
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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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11We 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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47Freedom 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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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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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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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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