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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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5Religion, 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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9Jacobi 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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73Jacobi 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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2“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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9Hegel 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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5How Intimate an “Intimate of Lessing” Truly Was Hegel?In Jürgen Stolzenberg, Fred Rush & Karl P. Ameriks (eds.), International Yearbook of German Philosophy, eds Jürgen Stolzenberg, Karl Ameriks, Fred Rush (Berlin/NewYork: de Gruyter, 2010) 178-197.Glaube Und Vernunft/Faith and Reason, De Gruyter. pp. 178-197. 2010.
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13. 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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7Franco 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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36One More Note on the Translation of Hegel's Science of LogicThe Owl of Minerva 49 (1): 149-149. 2017.
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17The 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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51Briefe 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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69Guida 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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28The Category of Contingency i n the Hegelian LogicIn W. E. Steinkraus (ed.), Art and Logic in Hegel's Philosophy, Humanities Press. pp. 179-200. 1980.
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12The Morally Responsible IndividualProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 2 49-59. 1995.
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23Hegel, 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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40Paragraphs 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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43Consciousness 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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83Kant'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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28The 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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8We 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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29Hegel's Phenomenology and the Critique of the Enlightenment. An Essay in InterpretationLaval Théologique et Philosophique 51 (2): 251-270. 1995.
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