Hegel and the Tradition : Essays in Honour of H.S. Harris

Bringing this volume into existence was very much a cooperative activity. The co-editorship makes this obvious at one level, but there are many other levels of cooperation that are not so obvious. First, we must thank all the contributors for being willing to shape their contributions around the common theme of 'tradition,' which emerged only through a year of letter-writing and discussion, and for the effort they all put into reading and commenting on each other's pieces in order to lend the volume coherence. Second, we must single out for special thanks John Burbidge, who did a great deal to help us put the volume together and who kindly undertook to write the foreword on Harris. Third, we must thank Ron Schoeffel, editor-in-chief of the University of Toronto Press, who was enormously supportive of our project from the beginning and without whose advice and help the volume would never have come to press. Fourth, we must thank all those who contributed financially to the project: the

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) is considered a philosopher of the Tradition, both in the sense that his work is rooted in the political, artistic, religious, and philosophical traditions of European culture and in the sense that he takes up the notion of tradition as an object of philosophical investigation. This collection examines Hegel's philosophy as it bears on the meaning and relevance of tradition – historical, legal, aesthetic, religious, and philosophical. The thirteen original essays draw upon and celebrate the work of H.S. Harris, who is considered by many to be the most influential interpreter of Hegel in the English-speaking world.

The collection as a whole examines Hegel's rich and nuanced relation to his own traditions, including his creative reworking of the legacies of Greece, Rome, Christianity, the Middle Ages, early modernity, and his immediate predecessors. It also shows how Hegel's thought has direct relevance for us today as we seek to understand ourselves in relation to our inherited traditions. The volume concludes with an afterword by H.S. Harris and a comprehensive bibliography of Harris's published works.

This important anthology represents the first rigorous and systematic effort to apply Harris's seminal and innovative style of Hegel scholarship to a wide variety of philosophical and historical issues. It functions both as a study of Hegel's philosophy and as a commentary on Harris's vast contribution to Hegel scholarship.

Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Foreword: Hume, Hegel, and Harris 9 Introduction: Hegel and Tradition 19 Part One: Philosophy of Right 33 1. Philosophical History and the Roman Empire 33 2. Locke, Fichte, and Hegel on the Right to Property 56 Part Two: Art 93 3. Hegel and Hamann: Ideas and Life 93 4. Winckelmann and Hegel on the Imitation of the Greeks 109 5. Hegel as Philosopher of the Temporal [irdischen] World: On the Dialectics of Narrative 127 Part Three: Religion 159 6. The Identity of the Human and the Divine in the Logic of Speculative Philosophy 159 7. The Final Name of God 178 8. Hegel's Open Future 192 9. Hegel's Encounter with the Christian Tradition, or How Theological Are Hegel's Early Theological Writings? 206 10. 'Wie aus der Pistole': Fries and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge 228 Part Four: Philosophy 261 11. Der Unterschied zwischen 'Differenz' und 'Unterschied': A Re-evaluation of Hegel's Differenzschrift 261 12. Dialectic as Counterpoint: On Philosophical Self-Measure in Plato and Hegel 280 13. Hegel's 'Freedom of Self-Consciousness' and Early Modern Epistemology 302 Afterword: Theme and Variations: The Round of Life and the Chorale of Thought 327 Hegel's Works 341 Publications of H.S. Harris 345 Contributors 363 "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) is considered a philosopher of the Tradition, both in the sense that his work is rooted in the political, artistic, religious, and philosophical traditions of European culture and in the sense that he takes up the notion of tradition as an object of philosophical investigation. This collection examines Hegel's philosophy as it bears on the meaning and relevance of tradition - historical, legal, aesthetic, religious, and philosophical. The thirteen original essays draw upon and celebrate the work of H.S. Harris, who is considered by many to be the most influential interpreter of Hegel in the English-speaking world."--Résumé de l'éditeur "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) is considered a philosopher of the Tradition, both in the sense that his work is rooted in the political, artistic, religious, and philosophical traditions of European culture and in the sense that he takes up the notion of tradition as an object of philosophical investigation. This collection examines Hegel's philosophy as it bears on the meaning and relevance of tradition - historical, legal, aesthetic, religious, and philosophical. The thirteen original essays draw upon and celebrate the work of H. S. Harris, who is considered by many to be the most influential interpreter of Hegel in the English-speaking world."--BOOK JACKET.