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Popular Philosophy: The Cases of Karl Leonhard Reinhold and Jakob Friedrich FriesIn Violetta Stolz, Martin Bendeli & Marion Heinz (eds.), Wille, Willkür, Freiheit: Reinholds Freiheitskonzeption im Kontext der Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunders, De Gruyter. pp. 383-408. 2012.
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9Religion, History, and Spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology of SpiritIn Kenneth R. Westphal (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Hegel and Religion The Experience of Religion The Concept of Religion References Further Reading.
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13Jacobi and Reinhold in the Spotlight: A Report on Two Recent ConferencesThe Owl of Minerva 34 (1): 127-132. 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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108Jacobi as literary authorIn Alexander J. B. Hampton (ed.), Friedrich Jacobi and the end of the enlightenment: religion, philosophy, and reason at the crux of modernity, Cambridge University Press. pp. 286-301. 2023.This article examines Jacobi's two novels, Allwill and Woldemar indirectly showing how much Allwill prefigures Kierkegaard's Seduce in Either/Or and the plot of Woldemar Hegel's final scene of Section VI of his Phenomenology of Spirit.
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5“Wie die Triebe, so der Sinn; und wie der Sinn, so die Triebe”: Jacobi on Reason as a Form of LifeIn Manja Kisner & Jörg Noller (eds.), The Concept of Drive in Classical German Philosophy: Between Biology, Anthropology, and Metaphysics, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 107-126. 2021.Up to 1800, before Jacobi was diverted into a simplistic distinction between understanding and reason, he had what amounted to the sketch of a potentially interesting theory of experience. The theory had its source in the Herzensmensch side of Jacobi’s persona. It was summed up in a formula “Wie die Triebe, so der Sinn; und wie der Sinn, so die Triebe,” which Jacobi used first to confront Lessing, and then Mendelssohn. In the Dialogue David Hume, he further argued that Kant’s categories can be d…Read more
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13Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza: A Study in German Idealism, 1801–1831Cambridge University Press. 2021.Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza explores the powerful continuing influence of Spinoza's metaphysical thinking in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German philosophy. George di Giovanni examines the ways in which Hegel's own metaphysics sought to meet the challenges posed by Spinoza's monism, not by disproving monism, but by rendering it moot. In this, di Giovanni argues, Hegel was much closer in spirit to Kant and Fichte than to Schelling. This book will be of interest to students…Read more
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8How Intimate an “Intimate of Lessing” Truly Was Hegel?In Jürgen Stolzenberg, Fred Rush & Karl P. Ameriks (eds.), Glaube Und Vernunft. / Faith and Reason, De Gruyter. pp. 178-197. 2010.
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43. Jewish and Post-Christian Interpretations of Hegel: Emil Fackenheim and Henry S. HarrisIn Susan M. Dodd & Neil G. Robertson (eds.), Hegel and Canada: Unity of Opposites?, University of Toronto Press. pp. 58-75. 2018.
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9Franco Chierighin,et al., trs., G.W.F. Hegel: Logica e metafisica di Jena ; traduzione, introduzione e commento. Trento, Verifiche, 1982, pp. 546, paperback L. 30,000 (review)Hegel Bulletin 5 (1): 14-17. 1984.
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38One More Note on the Translation of Hegel's Science of LogicThe Owl of Minerva 49 (1): 149-149. 2017.
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20The Spinozism of Fichte’s Transcendental Argument in the Lecture Notes of 1804Fichte-Studien 44 49-63. 2017.In a transcendental argument, a judgement ≫S is P≪ is unpacked into the two reflective claims: ≫I say that S is P≪, and ≫What I say is indeed the case≪; and the truth of the second is made to rest on the authority of the ≫I say≪ of the first. The argument has all the features of a testimony, where the reliability of the testimony depends on the extent to which, in being rendered, it conforms to stipulated canons of objectivity. As presented in 1804, Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre can be interpreted…Read more
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Between Kant and Hegel. Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian IdealismTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 51 (2): 370-370. 1989.
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29Briefe über die Kantische Philosophie (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (2): 251-252. 2010.Now that the edition of Fichte's works is complete, and those of Hegel's and Jacobi's practically complete, it is comforting to see that the edition of Reinhold's works, begun in 1983 with a first volume of his correspondence, but subsequently dormant, has finally been resumed in earnest. The two books under review are Reinhold's Letters on Kantian Philosophy that make up the two parts of the second of the twelve volumes now planned for the edition. An editorial board is supervising the project,…Read more
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21Guida al De orbitis planetarum di Hegel ed alle sue edizioni e traduzioni; La pars destruens (review)The Owl of Minerva 29 (2): 235-240. 1998.
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35The Category of Contingency i n the Hegelian LogicIn Warren E. Steinkraus & Kenneth L. Schmitz (eds.), Art and logic in Hegel's philosophy, Harvester Press. pp. 179-200. 1980.
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13The Morally Responsible IndividualProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 2 49-59. 1995.
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29Hegel, Nature and the Rationalization of Experience: On Allen Wood's Hegel's Ethical ThoughtDialogue 32 (4): 783-794. 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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15Die Philosophie Schleiermachers (review)Idealistic Studies 17 (2): 184-184. 1987.This is an excellent little book. As the title of the series to which it belongs indicates, it is intended as an account of the results of past and present research on Schleiermacher. The book opens with a brief statement of the contemporary relevance of this Romantic philosopher-theologian and of the difficulties of interpretation that his work presents. It then goes on with a detailed history of its reception, from early in the eighteenth century to the present. The history falls, roughly, int…Read more
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12Religion and Rational Theology (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2001.This volume collects for the first time in a single volume all of Kant's writings on religion and rational theology. These works were written during a period of conflict between Kant and the Prussian authorities over his religious teachings. His final statement of religion was made after the death of King Frederick William II in 1797. The historical context and progression of this conflict are charted in the general introduction to the volume and in the translators' introductions to particular t…Read more
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60A Note Regarding the Recent Translation of Hegel's "Greater Logic"The Owl of Minerva 44 (1/2): 143-143. 2012.
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52International Fichte Congress in JenaThe Owl of Minerva 26 (1): 108-108. 1994.An International Fichte Congress was held at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat in Jena, September 26 to October 1, 1994, under the auspices of the Internationale Johann-Gottlieb-Fichte-Gesellschaft, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Wissenschaftslehre. Participants came from all corners of Eastern and Western Europe, Canada, Japan, and the United States. Well over one hundred papers were read on all aspects of Fichte’s philosophy and Fichte’s heritage. Among the participants from N…Read more
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Werner Marx, The Philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling: History, System, and Freedom (review)Philosophy in Review 5 462-463. 1985.
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20Grazing in the Sunlight: On H. S. Harris's “The Cows in the Dark Night”Dialogue 26 (4): 653-. 1987.I have only two comments to make, both of which will appear incidental at first. Their full relevance to the paper you have just read will become clear at the end, as I hope.The first refers to Harris's remark that Jacobi, Schleiermacher and Herder “make strange bedfellows”. Actually, they do not. This is one more example, I believe, of Hegel's usual idiosyncratic yet conceptually sound classification of philosophers and philosophies. I am thinking especially of the Jacobi-Herder pair, but I sus…Read more
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