Hegel’s Encyclopedic System

287 Pages·2021·2.389 MB·English

by  Sebastian Stein (editor), Joshua Wretzel (editor)

Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
HEGEL’S ENCYCLOPEDIC
SYSTEM
Edited by
Sebastian Stein and Joshua Wretzel
Hegel’s Encyclopedic System
This book discusses the most comprehensive of Hegel’s works: his
long-neglected Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline. It
contains original essays by internationally renowned and emerging voices
in Hegel scholarship. Their contributions elucidate fundamental aspects of
Hegel’s encyclopedic system with an eye to its contemporary relevance. The
book thus addresses system-level claims about Hegel’s unique conceptions
of philosophy, philosophical ‘science’ and its method, dialectic, speculative
thinking and the way they relate to both Hegelian and contemporary
notions of nature, history, religion, freedom and cultural praxis.
Sebastian Stein is currently a research associate and assistant lecturer at
Heidelberg University where he is sponsored by the German Research
Foundation (DFG) for a project on philosophical method. He has published
several chapters and journal articles on Kant, post-Kantian idealism and
Aristotle and has guest-edited and contributed to a special volume of
the Hegel Bulletin on Hegel and Aristotle (2020). Together with Thom
Brooks, Dr. Stein has edited and contributed to the collection Hegel’s
Practical Philosophy (2017) and with James Gledhill, he has edited and
contributed to Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy (Routledge
2020). His chapter on absolute idealism features in the Blackwell Guide
to Nineteenth Century Philosophy and as editor and contributor, he has a
collection forthcoming on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and a critical
guide to Hegel’s Encyclopedia.
Joshua Wretzel is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department
of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University. He has received
fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and the Max Kade
German-American Research Institute, which funded stays at the Ruprecht-
Karls-Universität Heidelberg and Universität Leipzig, respectively. His
work on the German philosophical tradition is published in the European
Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Research, Hegel Bulletin,
International Journal of Philosophical Studies and Continental Philosophy
Review. He is co-editor, with Sebastian Stein, of Hegel’s Encyclopedia of
the Philosophical Sciences: A Critical Guide, forthcoming.
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Edited by Sebastian Stein and
Joshua Wretzel
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We would like to dedicate this volume to Professor Doctor
Jens Halfwassen who tragically passed away in 2020 and who
is dearly missed by all who had the privilege to know and
learn from him.
‘[D]aß das Eine jenseits jeder Erkenntnis ist, ist selber eine
begründbare Erkenntnis; zugleich aber vollzieht diese Einsicht
ein sinnvolles Scheitern des argumentierenden, dialektischen
Denkens, das durch die Aufhebung aller Denkbarkeit die
Ekstasis vorbereitet, so daß alles Philosophieren über das Eine
zuletzt ein “Aufwecken aus den Begriffen zur Schau” (VI 9, 4,
13–14) ist.’1
1 Jens Halfwassen (2006), Der Aufstieg zum Einen, München: KG Saur, p. 16.

Contents
List of contributors ix
1 Introduction 1
SEBASTIAN STEIN AND JOSHUA WRETZEL
2 Hegel’s Science of Reason as a Science of Freedom:
From Nuremberg to Heidelberg 8
KLAUS VIEWEG
TRANSLATED BY S. STEIN AND J. WRETZEL
3 Hegel’s Heidelberg Encyclopedia as the Principal Work
of a Metaphysics of Geist 22
JENS HALFWASSEN
TRANSLATED BY S. STEIN AND J. WRETZEL
4 Philosophy as the Science of Freedom 33
LUCA ILLETTERATI
5 Hegel’s System and the Negativity of Dialectics 50
ANTON FRIEDRICH KOCH
TRANSLATED BY S. STEIN AND J. WRETZEL
6 The Encyclopedia System as a Form of Worship 62
ROBERTO VINCO
7 Between Religion and the Empirical Sciences: Hegel’s
Concept of Philosophical Science According to the
Introduction to the Encyclopedia 80
FRIEDRIKE SCHICK
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8 Temporal Strata of Historical Experience in Hegel’s
Encyclopedia 98
CHRISTOPHER YEOMANS
9 Hegel’s Logic as a System of Illegitimate Totalities 116
MICHELA BORDIGNON
10 Nature’s Otherness: On the Status of Nature in Hegel’s
Encyclopedic System 133
JOHANNES-GEORG SCHÜLEIN
11 The Two Souls: Some Remarks on Hegel’s Investigation
of ‘Soul’ in the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit and
Philosophy of Nature 155
LUCA CORTI
12 Truth and Method in the Encyclopedia of the
Philosophical Sciences 171
JOSHUA WRETZEL
13 Objective Geist Today 186
JEAN FRANCOIS KERVÉGAN
TRANSLATED BY S. STEIN AND J. WRETZEL
14 The Absolute Spirit as the Consummation of Hegel’s
Concept of Truth 202
TOBIAS DANGEL
15 The Proximity of Philosophy to Religion: Hegel’s
Evaluative Reason 218
DEAN MOYAR
16 Hegel’s Notion of Philosophy: The Concept-Based
Unity of Self-Referential Universality and Differentiated
Particularity 240
SEBASTIAN STEIN
Index 269
Contributors
Dr. Klaus Vieweg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jena. He
has held fellowships or was a guest professor in Pisa, Seattle, Bochum,
Erlangen, Prague, Vienna, Siena, Medellin, Tokyo, Kyoto, Shanghai and
Rome. His publications include the monographs Das Denken der Freiheit.
Hegels Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts. München 2012; Hegels
Phänomenologie des Geistes (Hg. K. Vieweg/W. Welsch). Frankfurt a.
M. 2008; Philosophie des Remis. Der junge Hegel und das Gespenst des
Skepticismus. München 1999; Skepsis und Freiheit. München 2008; 200
Jahre Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik (Hg. A. Koch, F. Schick, K. Vieweg,
C. Wirsing). Hamburg 2014. In 2019, Professor Vieweg published a
biography of Hegel with C. H. Beck publishers in Munich.
Dr. Jens Halfwassen (†) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Heidelberg. His publications include Auf den Spuren des Einen. Studien
zur Metaphysik und ihrer Geschichte. Collegium Metaphysicum Band 14.
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag 2015; Plotinus and the Neoplatonism,
translated by Carl Sean O’Brien; Plotin und der Neuplatonismus.
Beck’sche Reihe Denker, München: C. H. Beck Verlag 2004; Der
Aufstieg zum Einen. Untersuchungen zu Platon und Plotin. Beiträge zur
Altertumskunde Band 9. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner Verlag 1992,. 2., um
einen Forschungsbericht erweiterte Aufage München und Leipzig: K. G.
Saur Verlag 2006 (Dissertation); Jens Halfwassen, Martin Gessmann,
Bernhard Waldenfels, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer; Die Zukunft der
Philosophie (Sonderheft der Philosophischen Rundschau), Tübingen:
Mohr Siebeck 2010; Philosophie und Religion. Herausgegeben von Jens
Halfwassen, Markus Gabriel und Stephan Zimmermann (Heidelberger
Forschungen Band 37). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2011.
Luca Illetterati is a Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University
of Padua. He is the coordinator of the Research Group on Classical
German Philosophy at the University of Padova (www. hegelpd. it). His
publications include: Wirklichkeit: Beiträge zu einem Schlüsselbegriff
der Hegelschen Philosophie, Frankfurt: Klostermann 2018 (ed. by,
with. F. Menegoni); Filosofa Classica Tedesca: le parole chiave, Roma: