The logic of desire : an introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit

Peter Kalkavage's __The Logic of Desire__ guides the reader through Hegel's great work. Given the book's legendary difficulty, one may well ask, "Why even try to read the __Phenomenology__?" In his preface, Kalkavage explains why he thinks a reader should try: > __There is much to commend the study of Hegel: his attentiveness to the deepest, most fundamental questions of philosophy, his uncompromising pursuit of truth, his amazing gift for characterization and critique, his appreciation for the grand sweep of things and the large view, his profound admiration for all that is heroic, especially for the ancient Greeks, those heroes of thought in whom the philosophic spirit first dawned, his penetrating gaze into modernity in all its forms, his enormous breadth of interests, and his audacious claim to have captured absolute knowing in a thoroughly rational account.__ According to Kalkavage, the __Phenomenology__ belongs to a quartet of the greatest works on education. The other three members of the quartet are Plato's __Republic__ , Dante's __Divine Comedy__ , and Rousseau's __Emile__. No genuine philosophic education can omit a serious encounter with this giant of the modern age, the giant who absorbed all the worlds of spiritual vitality that came before him and tried to organize them into a coherent whole. "This book comes as close as I have seen to a guide to Hegel for the 'courageous non-specialist,' to employ Mr. Kalkavage's expression. He writes from what is obviously a lengthy and deep study of Hegel and of the __Phenomenology__ in particular. There is no patronising of Hegel's complex teaching. The technical terminology is not avoided or concealed by the jovial jargon of a study manual. Kalkavage has mastered the art of presenting topics of great difficulty in a way that will instruct specialists as well as non-specialists. I found especially illuminating his portrait of determinate negation and the difference between consciousness and the phenomenolgical observer. This book should be in every college and university library."—Stanley Rosen "Having taught philosophy to undergraduates for the past thirty-nine years, I can especially appreciate the value of Peter Kalkavage's book, __The Logic of Desire__. This work will truly benefit anyone who wishes to learn what Hegel himself is teaching in his first major volume. It provides remarkable insights on Hegel's complex work as a whole as well as serving as a sure guide for every chapter and for virtually every paragraph. Even the many endnotes are very valuable. It should be made readily available to every undergraduate who has to read any part of the __Phenomenology__."—Dr. Donald C. Lindenmuth, Pennsylvania State University **Peter Kalkavage** is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he has taught for thirty years. He is the author of numerous articles on philosophy. He translated Plato's __Timaeus__ and co-translated Plato's __Phaedo__ and __Sophist__. Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Acknowledgment Contents: an Itinerary to the Journey of Consciousness Prologue: The Ladder and the Labyrinth Preparing the Journey 1. A World of Knowing 2. What Is Experience? (HEGEL'S INTRODUCTION) Natural Consciousness Builds a Fence Apparent Knowing The Nothing That Is Something Experience as the Testing of Consciousness Consciousness 3. Of Mere Being (SENSE-CERTAINTY) First Stage: The Object Is Essential Second Stage: The Subject Is Essential Third Stage: The Dialectic of Pointing The Pretensions of Sense-Certainty 4. The Crisis of Thinghood (PERCEPTION) The Secret Life of the Thing Experiencing the Thing First Stage: The Object as One and Many Second Stage: One and Many Shared between Subject and Object Third Stage: The Thing in Itself and Its Relation to Other Things The Sophistry of Perception 5. The Dynamics of Self-Expression (UNDERSTANDING) The Concept of Force The Work of Force Another World 6. Principles of Motion and the Motion of Principles (UNDERSTANDING, CONTINUED) The First Supersensible World The Inverted World Infinity and the Birth of Self-Consciousness Self-Consciousness 7. On Life and Desire Self-Certainty [166-67] The Facts of Life and the Logic of Life [168-72] Self-Consciousness and Desire [173-77] Another Self-Consciousness [175-77] 8. The Violent Self: In Quest of Recognition The Logic of Recognition [178-85] The Fight for Recognition [186-88] Master and Slave [189-96] 9. Freedom as Thinking The Dream of the Stoic [197-202] The Work of the Skeptic [202-7] 10. Infinite Yearning and the Rift in Man A Logical Overview [207-14] Phase Two: Desire and Work [218-22] Phase Three: Self-Surrender [223-30] Reason 11. Idealism The Transition to Reason [231] The Forgotten Path [232-39] The Shapes of Reason 12. Adventures of a Rational Observer Observing External Nature [244-97] A) PHASE ONE B) PHASE TWO C) PHASE THREE Observing the Mind: Logic and Psychology [298-308] Observing Mind in Body: Physiognomy and Phrenology [309-46] 13. The Romance of Reason Desire Revisited [360-66] The Tyranny of the Heart [367-80] The Ideologies of Motive [381-93] 14. Rational Animals and the Birth of Spirit The War of the Works [397-407] The Thing That Matters [408-15] Artful Dodgers [416-18] Reason Gives the Law [419-28] Reason Tests the Law [429-35] The Fall of Reason and the Rise of Spirit [436-37] Spirit 15. Ethical Life: Laws in Conflict Things to Come [444-45] Life as Harmony [446-63] The Tragedy of Action [464-72] The Fall of Ethicality [473-76] The Degradations of Personhood [477-83] 16. Interlude A View of the Whole The Appearances of Christianity 17. Culture as Alienation Alienation A House Divided [484-87] The Metaphysics of Lived Culture [488-95] Nobility and Contempt [496-506] The Self as Language [508-10] From State Power to Wealth [511-16] Rameau's Nephew: Language and Perversity [517-25] Faith and Reason [526-37] 18. From Pure Insight to Pure Terror: The Darkness of the Enlightenment The Animus of Insight [538-62] Faith Unsettled [563-73] The Two Enlightenments and Utility [574-81] Terror as the Truth of Culture [582-95] 19. Pure Willing and the Moral World-View Morality and Its Postulates [596-600] The First Postulate: Duty and the External World [601-2] The Second Postulate: Duty and the Internal World [603] The Third Postulate: God [604-11] A Higher Moral Certainty [612-15] The Dance of the Moral Sophist [616-30] THE FIRST POSTULATE THE SECOND POSTULATE THE THIRD POSTULATE The Awakening [631] 20. Conscience and Reconciliation: Hegel's Divine Comedy Conscience and the Man of Action [635-54] The Beautiful Soul [655-58] The Doer and His Judge: Evil and Forgiveness [659-68] Reconciliation and the Birth of Absolute Spirit [669-71] The Transition to Conscience [632-34] Religion 21. The Depiction of God Rethinking the Whole [672-83] A) THE RELIGION OF LIGHT [PERSIA] [684-88] B) THE RELIGION OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS [INDIA] [689-90] C) SPIRIT AS CRAFTSMAN [EGYPT] [691-98] 22. The Greek Phase a) The Abstract Work of Art [Statue and Hymn] [705-19] b) The Living Work ofArt [Bacchants and Athletes] [720-26] c) The Spiritual Work of Art [Epic, Tragedy, Comedy] [727-46] I. THE EPIC II. TRAGEDY III. COMEDY 23. Christianity, the Figure of Science Hegel's Heresies From Greek Levity to Roman Grief [748-53] The Birth of Christianity [754-58] The Humanization of God [759-66] The First Moment: God as Pure Essence [767-72] The Second Moment: Creation and Fall [773-79] The Third Moment: God as the Spirit of Christian Community [780-86] Not Home Yet [787] Absolute Knowing 24. Speculative Good Friday: The Top of Hegel's Ladder Prelude to the Finale Overcoming the Object [788-89] A Gathering of Shapes [790-94] The Rise of Absolute Knowing [795-99] THE MOMENT WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR Science and the Kingdom of Time [800-804] THE SELF IN HISTORY TIME MODERN PHILOSOPHY AS THE EVOLUTIONOF THE TIME-CONCEPT The Passion According to Hegel [805-8] Hegel and the Image Epilogue Why Read Hegel7 Eros and Wissenschaft A Brief Bibliography Works by Hegel in English Translation TRANSLATIONS OF THE PHENOMENOLOG Y Helpful Books on Hegel's Phenomenology and Related Topics Notes Prologue Chapter 1: A World of Knowing Chapter 2: What Is Experience? Chapter 3: Of Mere Being Chapter 4: The Crisis of Thinghood Chapter 5: The Dynamics of Self-Expression Chapter 6: Principles of Motion and the Motion of Principles Chapter 7: On Life and Desire Chapter 8: The Violent Self Chapter 9: Freedom as Thinking Chapter 10: Infinite Yearning and the Rift in Man Chapter 11: Idealism Chapter 12: Adventures of a Rational Observer Chapter 13: The Romance of Reason Chapter 14: Rational Animals and the Birth of Spirit Chapter 15: Ethical Life Chapter 16: Interlude Chapter 17: Culture as Alienation Chapter 18: From Pure Insight to Pure Terror Chapter 19: Pure Willing and the Moral World-View Chapter 20: Conscience and Reconciliation Chapter 21: The Depiction of God Chapter 22: The Greek Phase Chapter 23: Christianity, the Figure of Science Chapter 24: Speculative Good Friday Index Peter Kalkavage's The Logic of Desire guides the reader through Hegel's great work. Given the book's legendary difficulty, one may well ask, "Why even try to read the Phenomenology ?" In his preface, Kalkavage explains why he thinks a reader should try: There is much to commend the study of Hegel: his attentiveness to the deepest, most fundamental questions of philosophy, his uncompromising pursuit of truth, his amazing gift for characterization and critique, his appreciation for the grand sweep of things and the large view, his profound admiration for all that is heroic, especially for the ancient Greeks, those heroes of thought in whom the philosophic spirit first dawned, his penetrating gaze into modernity in all its forms, his enormous breadth of interests, and his audacious claim to have captured absolute knowing in a thoroughly rational account. According to Kalkavage, the Phenomenology belongs to a quartet of the greatest works on education. The other three members of the quartet are Plato's Republic , Dante's Divine Comedy , and Rousseau's Emile . No genuine philosophic education can omit a serious encounter with this giant of the modern age, the giant who absorbed all the worlds of spiritual vitality that came before him and tried to organize them into a coherent whole. "This book comes as close as I have seen to a guide to Hegel for the 'courageous non-specialist,' to employ Mr. Kalkavage's expression. He writes from what is obviously a lengthy and deep study of Hegel and of the Phenomenology in particular. There is no patronising of Hegel's complex teaching. The technical terminology is not avoided or concealed by the jovial jargon of a study manual. Kalkavage has mastered the art of presenting topics of great difficulty in a way that will instruct specialists as well as non-specialists. I found especially illuminating his portrait of determinate negation and the difference between consciousness and the phenomenolgical observer. This book should be in every college and university library."—Stanley Rosen "Having taught philosophy to undergraduates for the past thirty-nine years, I can especially appreciate the value of Peter Kalkavage's book, The Logic of Desire . This work will truly benefit anyone who wishes to learn what Hegel himself is teaching in his first major volume. It provides remarkable insights on Hegel's complex work as a whole as well as serving as a sure guide for every chapter and for virtually every paragraph. Even the many endnotes are very valuable. It should be made readily available to every undergraduate who has to read any part of the Phenomenology ."—Dr. Donald C. Lindenmuth, Pennsylvania State University Peter Kalkavage is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he has taught for thirty years. He is the author of numerous articles on philosophy. He translated Plato's Timaeus and co-translated Plato's Phaedo and Sophist .

Peter Kalkavage’s The Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit guides the reader through Hegel’s great work. Given the book’s legendary difficulty, one may well ask, “Why even try to read the Phenomenology?” In his preface, Kalkavage explains why he thinks a reader should try.

There is much to commend the study of Hegel: his attentiveness to the deepest, most fundamental questions of philosophy, his uncompromising pursuit of truth, his amazing gift for characterization and critique, his appreciation for the grand sweep of things and the large view, his profound admiration for all that is heroic, especially for the ancient Greeks, those heroes of thought in whom the philosophic spirit first dawned, his penetrating gaze into modernity in all its forms, the enormous breadth of his interests, and the sheer audacity of his claim to have captured absolute knowing in the form of a thoroughly rational account.

No genuine philosophic education can omit a serious encounter with this giant of the modern age, the giant who absorbed all the worlds of spiritual vitality that came before him and tried to organize them into a coherent whole.

Anyone who is interested in Hegel will want to own this book.

Peter Kalkavage is a member of the senior faculty at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he has taught for thirty years. He is the author of numerous articles on philosophy. He translated Plato’s Timaeus and co-translated Plato’s Phaedo and Sophist.

Peter Kalkavage's The Logic of Desire guides the reader through Hegel's great work. Given the book's legendary difficulty, one may well ask, "Why even try to read the Phenomenology?" In his Prologue, Kalkavage explains why he thinks a reader should try: There is much to commend the study of Hegel: his attentiveness to the deepest, most fundamental questions of philosophy, his uncompromising pursuit of truth, his amazing gift for characterization and critique, his appreciation for the grand sweep of things and the large view, his profound admiration for all that is heroic, especially for the ancient Greeks, those heroes of thought i whom the philosophic spirit first dawned, his penetrating gaze into modernity in all its forms, his enormous breadth of interests, and his audacious claim to have captured absolute knowing in a thoroughly rational account. -- Back cover Peter Kalkavage's The Logic of Desire guides the reader through Hegel's great work. Given the book's legendary difficulty, one may well ask, "Why even try to read the Phenomenology?" In his Prologue, Kalkavage explains why he thinks a reader should try: There is much to commend the study of Hegel: his attentiveness to the deepest, most fundamental questions of philosophy, his uncompromising pursuit of truth, his amazing gift for characterization and critique, his appreciation for the grand sweep of things and the large view, his profound admiration for all that is heroic, especially for the ancient Greeks, those heroes of thought in whom the philosophic spirit first dawned, his penetrating gaze into modernity in all its forms, his enormous breadth of interests, and his audacious claim to have captured absolute knowing in a thoroughly rational account