-
46A Reply to Joseph C. Flay’s “Hegel’s Metaphysics”The Owl of Minerva 24 (2): 153-161. 1993.At the conclusion of TBKH, I expressed the hope that what I had written would provoke others to pursue further the issues raised by the paper. It will be evident from what follows that there is much in “Hegel’s Metaphysics”, Joseph Flay’s response to my paper, with which I do not agree. However, Flay has provided just the kind of thoughtful analysis of the issues that I was hoping for, and for that I am very grateful.
-
1Hegel's Critique Of Verstand In ModernityBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 35 54-70. 1997.
-
481Necessity and Contingency in Hegel’s Science of LogicThe Owl of Minerva 27 (1): 37-49. 1995.In this essay I propose to examine Hegel’s account of necessity and contingency in the Science of Logic. Anyone who dares to take Hegel’s Logic seriously in public risks being accused by legions of formal logicians of “elementary logical fallacies”. Nevertheless, John Burbidge, Dieter Henrich, and others have demonstrated that it is possible to discuss the Logic with clarity and intelligibility, and I shall endeavor to emulate their example as best as I can. One should take heed, however; even H…Read more
-
66Hegel and FichteThe Owl of Minerva 26 (1): 3-19. 1994.In his excellent recent book, Recognition: Fichte and Hegel on the Other, Robert Williams argues that, contrary to what many commentators claim, Hegel’s philosophy does not seek to swallow up individuality and difference in an all-embracing and all-consuming absolute, but rather takes individuality and differentiation seriously as essential features of the society and the world in which we live. Williams defends this interpretation by arguing that Hegel understands all forms of genuine human com…Read more
-
38Formal, Transcendental and Dialectical Thinking (review)Idealistic Studies 21 (1): 90-92. 1991.Errol Harris’s new book is an impressive and bold attempt to call into question the presuppostions of modern thought and to argue that a dialectical conception of logic and metaphysics is what is required by present-day science and culture. Whether Harris will convince his readers of the validity of Hegelian dialectical logic, I am not sure. What is certain, however, is that this book poses a challenge to contemporary philosophy that deserves to be taken seriously. Harris has produced a highly s…Read more
-
"Postponements: Woman, Sensuality and Death in Nietzsche": David Farrel Krell (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 27 (4): 384. 1987.
-
1David Lamb, ed., Hegel and Modern Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 8 (4): 135-138. 1988.
-
55Hegel’s Dialectic and its Criticism (review)The Owl of Minerva 15 (1): 117-121. 1983.Rosen’s book renews the skeptical attack on Hegelianism. He pursues the attack well - perhaps as well as the case permits - and thus exposes Hegelianism to the discipline of an instructive test. He in fact concedes less to Hegel than his fellow anti-Hegelian in the skeptical tradition, Jacques Derrida. For where Derrida admits that Hegel is rationally impregnable and thus resorts to mockery and jest, Rosen ultimately denies such impregnability. True, Hegelianism cannot be criticized except from …Read more
-
382An Introduction to Hegel. Freedom, Truth and HistoryWiley-Blackwell. 2005.This classic introduction to one of the most influential modern thinkers, G.W.F. Hegel has been made even more comprehensive through the addition of four new chapters. New edition of a classic introduction to Hegel. Enables students to engage with many aspects of Hegel’s philosophy. Covers the whole range of Hegel’s mature thought. Relates Hegel’s ideas to other thinkers, such as Luther, Descartes and Kant. Offers a distinctive and challenging interpretation of Hegel’s work
-
36Logic and Nature in Hegel’s Philosophy: A Response to John W. BurbidgeThe Owl of Minerva 34 (1): 107-125. 2002.In this essay I argue that Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature combines four elements. Hegel develops an a priori account of the logical determinations immanent in and peculiar to nature—determinations that incorporate the determinations set out in the Logic. Hegel then points to the empirical phenomena corresponding to each determination and so proves indirectly that such phenomena are necessary. Finally, he draws attention to those aspects of nature that cannot be explained by nature’s immanent logic…Read more
-
16Hegel and the Symbolic Mediation of Spirit (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2001.Employs Derrida's critique of Hegel as the impetus for a new understanding of Hegel's concept of "spirit."
-
221Hegel and the "End" of ArtThe Owl of Minerva 29 (1): 1-21. 1997.The aim of this article is to explain why, in Hegel's view, art's history brings it to the point at which it can no longer afford the highest satisfaction of our spiritual needs and so fulfill its own highest calling, and why, nevertheless, we moderns still need art and still need it to create beauty. I argue that Hegel advocates a modern art of beauty because he believes that what has to be given aesthetic expression in the modern world is concrete human freedom and life (ratherthan the abstrac…Read more
-
J Brockmeier's "reines Denken": Zur Kritik Der Teleologischen Denkform (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 27 79-85. 1993.
-
66The Hegel Reader (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1998._The Hegel Reader_ is the most comprehensive collection of Hegel's writings currently available in English
-
G M Wolfle's Die Wesenlogik In Hegels "wissenschaft Der Logik" (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 32 40-47. 1995.
-
47Schiller and the dance of beautyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 51 (1). 2008.Frederick Beiser’s study, Schiller as Philosopher, is a work of outstanding philosophical intelligence and exemplary scholarship. This is good news for the student of Schiller. It is, however, somewhat less good news for the aspiring critic of Beiser—at least for this aspiring critic, for there is little that I disagree with, and a very great deal that I admire, in Beiser’s book. Particularly valuable—to mention just one of the book’s many merits—is Beiser’s subtle and illuminating account of th…Read more
-
219Essence, Reflexion, and Immediacy in Hegel's Science of LogicIn Stephen Houlgate & Michael Baur (eds.), A Companion to Hegel, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: From Being to Essence Essence and Seeming Reflexion Positing and Presupposing External and Determining Reflexion Identity and Difference Diversity Reflexive and Non‐reflexive Immediacy Reflexion and the Concept Conclusion Abbreviations.
-
3HS Harris, Hegel's Ladder, I: The Pilgrimage of Reason HS Harris, Hegel's Ladder, II: The Odyssey of SpiritRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
-
11Power, Egoism and the « Open » Self in Nietzsche and HegelJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 22 (3): 120-138. 1991.
-
66A Reply to Alan White’s Review of Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Criticism of MetaphysicsThe Owl of Minerva 21 (2): 227-230. 1990.Alan White’s review in The Owl, 22, 1 : 91–96, of my book, Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Criticism of Metaphysics, offers a generous appraisal of what he considers to be the book’s merits and faults. White is clearly not satisfied that the book has successfully accomplished what it set out to achieve. However, after having been told by one reviewer that what “plainly” lay closest to my heart was a full-blooded defense of Hegel, and after having been scolded by another reviewer for not having “engage…Read more
-
Hegel's Critique Of Foundationalism In The "Doctrine Of Essence"Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 39 18-34. 1999.
-
46Nature and History: Ultimate and Final PurposeIn Will Dudley & Kristina Engelhardt (eds.), Immanuel Kant: Key Concepts, Acumen Publishing. pp. 184-199. 2011.