The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking (Anamnesis)

'It belongs to the weakness of our time not to be able to bear the greatness, the immensity of the claims made by the human spirit, to feel crushed before them, and to flee from them faint-hearted.' (Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy, v2, p. 10) Is it becoming more obvious today that the thinkers of the post-Hegelian era were/are not 'able to bear the greatness, the immensity of the claims made by the human spirit'? Is our era the era of the 'faint-hearted' philosophy? Celebrating 200 years since the publication of The Phenomenology of Spirit this volume addresses these questions through a renewed encounter with Hegel's thought. This book includes contributions from: H. S. Harris, John W. Burbidge, Paul Redding, Angelica Nuzzo, David Gray Carlson, Simon Lumsden, Karin de Boer, David Rose, Andrew Haas, Toula Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos, Jorge Armando Reyes Escobar, Maria J. Binetti, Wendell Kisner, Paul Ashton and Robert Sinnerbrink. 01 The Spirit of the Age and the Fate of Philosophical Thinking; 02 Would Hegel Be A 'Hegelian' Today?; 03 Dialectical Reason and Necessary Conflict; 04 Hegel Today: Towards a Tragic Conception of Intercultural Conflicts; 05 Hegel's Theory of Moral Action; 06 Hegel's Science of Logic and the 'Sociality of Reason'; 07 The Relevance of Hegel's Logic; 08 Hegel and the Becoming of Essence; 09 Hegel, Idealism and God; 10 Being and Implication: On Hegel and the Greeks; 11 Kierkegaard's Ethical Stage in Hegel's Logical Categories; 12 Sein und Geist: Heidegger's Confrontation with Hegel's Phenomenology; 13 Hegel, Derrida and the Subject; 14 Agamben, Hegel, and the State of Exception; 15 The Ego as World; 16 Gathering and Dispersing: The Absolute Spirit in Hegel's Philosophy; 17 The Beginning Before the Beginning: Hegel and the Activation of Philosophy; Bibliography. "Reflections on the thought of G.W.F. Hegel's philosophy as a whole and in relation to the philosophical tradition before and after Hegel. 'it belongs to the weakness of our time not to be able to bear the greatness, the immensity of the claims made by the human spirit, to feel crushed before them, and to flee from them faint-hearted.' (Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy, v. 2, p. 10) Is it becoming more obvious today that the thinkers of the post-Hegelian era were/are not 'able to bear the greatness, the immensity of the claims made by the human spirit'? Is our era the era of the 'faint-hearted' philosophy? Celebrating 200 years since the publication of The Phenomenology of Spirit this volume addresses these questions through a renewed encounter with Hegel's thought."--Provided by publisher