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William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), one of the great works of modern philosophy. In particular Bristow shows that a proper understanding of this work must be founded on an understanding of its relationship to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781).

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William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit. Hegel describes the method of this work as a 'way of despair', meaning thereby that the reader who undertakes its inquiry must be open to the experience of self-loss through it. Whereas the existential dimension of Hegel's work has often been either ignored or regarded as romantic ornamentation, Bristow argues thatit belongs centrally to Hegel's attempt to fulfil a demanding epistemological ambition. With his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant expressed a new epistemological demand with respect torational knowledge and presented a new method for meeting this demand. Bristow reconstructs Hegel's objection to Kant's Critical Philosophy, according to which Kant's way of meeting the epistemological demand of philosophical critique presupposes subjectivism, that is, presupposes the restriction of our knowledge to things as they are merely for us. Whereas Hegel in his early Jena writings rejects Kant's critical project altogether on this basis, he comes to see that the epistemological demandexpressed in Kant's project must be met. Bristow argues that Hegel's method in the Phenomenology of Spirit takes shape as his attempt to meet the epistemological demand of Kantian critique withoutpresupposing subjectivism. The key to Hegel's transformation of Kant's critical procedure, by virtue of which subjectivism is to be avoided, is precisely the existential or self-transformational dimension of Hegel's criticism, the openness of the criticizing subject to being transformed through the epistemological procedure.

Author Biography

William F. Bristow is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine.

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart I Hegel's objection1: Is Kant's idealism subjective?2: Hegel's suspicion: Kantian critique and subjectivismPart II Hegel's transformation of critique3: The rejection of Kantian critique: philosophy, skepticism and the recovery of the ancient idea4: The return to Kantian critique: recognizing the rights of ordinary consciousness5: Hegel's self-transformational criticism

Review

William Bristow has written a superb book... [it] is a brilliant defence of Hegel, indispensable reading for anyone interested in Kant and Hegel, and in Kantian and Hegelian themes in contemporary philosophy. It also presents a breathtaking vision of epistemology. * Paul Franks, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

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William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit. Hegel describes the method of this work as a 'way of despair', meaning thereby that the reader who undertakes its inquiry must be open to the experience of self-loss through it. Whereas the existential dimension of Hegel's work has often been either ignored or regarded as romantic ornamentation, Bristow argues thatit belongs centrally to Hegel's attempt to fulfil a demanding epistemological ambition. With his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant expressed a new epistemological demand with respect to rational knowledge and presented a new method for meeting this demand. Bristow reconstructs Hegel'sobjection to Kant's Critical Philosophy, according to which Kant's way of meeting the epistemological demand of philosophical critique presupposes subjectivism, that is, presupposes the restriction of our knowledge to things as they are merely for us. Whereas Hegel in his early Jena writings rejects Kant's critical project altogether on this basis, he comes to see that the epistemological demand expressed in Kant's project must be met. Bristow argues that Hegel's method in the Phenomenologyof Spirit takes shape as his attempt to meet the epistemological demand of Kantian critique without presupposing subjectivism. The key to Hegel's transformation of Kant's critical procedure, by virtue of which subjectivism is to be avoided, is precisely the existential or self-transformational dimensionof Hegel's criticism, the openness of the criticizing subject to being transformed through the epistemological procedure.

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"Bristow's book is a brilliant defence of Hegel, indispensable reading for anyone interested in Kant and Hegel, and in Kantian and Hegelian themes in contemporary philosophy. It also presents a breathtaking vision of epistemology. We should be grateful to Bristow, both for putting the long-standing debates between Kantians and Hegelians on a new footing, and for reminding us that Hegel -- whose sobriety, even as a student, won him the nickname "the old man" - could nevertheless turn philosophy into an enterprise in which everything is risked, an adventure in which there is both terror and exhilaration."--Paul Franks,Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Sheds new light on the relationship between two landmark worksOf interest to anyone working on the development of modern European philosophyRelevant to current debates about knowledge and subjectivity

Details ISBN0199290644 Author William F. Bristow Short Title HEGEL & THE TRANSFORMATION OF Language English ISBN-10 0199290644 ISBN-13 9780199290642 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 193 Year 2007 Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Affiliation University of California, Irvine Illustrations black & white illustrations Pages 272 DOI 10.1604/9780199290642 UK Release Date 2007-01-25 AU Release Date 2007-01-25 NZ Release Date 2007-01-25 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2007-01-25 Alternative 9780199645275 Audience Professional & Vocational Imprint Oxford University Press We've got this

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