The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System / / Wes Furlotte.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Furlotte, Wes,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives in Ontology : NPO
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

Reconsiders Hegel’s system from the perspective of contemporary philosophyWes Furlotte critically evaluates Hegel’s philosophy of human freedom in terms of his often-disregarded conception of nature. In doing so, he gives us a new portrait of Hegel’s final system that is surprisingly relevant for our contemporary world, connecting it with recent work in speculative realism and new materialism. Furlotte offers a sophisticated sense of the fundamental materialism permeating Hegel’s concept of freedom and how the former serves as the inescapable precondition of subjectivity and social history. He also reveals how material nature and culture’s reactions to it problematize human freedom – even threaten it with utter annihilation. This book forces us to reconsider accepted accounts of Hegel’s system and to re-evaluate what Hegel, and German Idealism, might still offer us today.Key FeaturesA sophisticated account of the materialism at work in Hegel’s final system and how it is both crucial to, and problematic for, his project of freedomOffers a complex sense of how Hegel and German Idealism try to bridge the gap between material necessity and radical freedom which opened up in the wake of Kant’s ground-breaking CritiquesGives a distinct sense of the rich philosophical potential of Hegel and German Idealism for our contemporary world, particularly in terms of nature, subjectivity and freedom"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Problem of a Philosophical Rendering of Nature and Hegel’s Philosophy of the Real -- Part I ‘Gleaming leprosy in the sky’ -- 1 The ‘Non-Whole’ of Hegelian Nature: Extrinsicality and the Problems of Sickness and Death -- 2 The Instability of Space-Time and the Contingency of Necessity -- 3 The Problem of Nature’s Spurious Infinite within the Register of Animal Life -- 4 Assimilation and the Problems of Sex, Violence, and Sickness unto Death -- Part II Spirit’s Birth from within the Bio-Material World -- 5 The Other Hegel: The Anthropology and Spirit’s Birth from within the Bio-Material World -- 6 Embodiment: Spirit, Material–Maternal Dependence, and the Problem of the in utero -- 7 The Nightmare of Reason and Regression into the Night of the World -- 8 Treatment as (re-)Habituation: From Psychopathology to (re-)Actualised Subjectivity -- Part III The Problem of Surplus Repressive Punishment -- 9 An Introduction to the Problem of Surplus Repressive Punishment -- 10 Abstract Right: Natural Immediacy within the Matrices of Personhood -- 11 Crime, the Negation of Right, and the Problem of European Colonial Consciousness -- 12 Surplus Repressive Punishment and Spirit’s Regressive (de-)Actualisation -- Conclusion: Freedom within Two Natures, or, the Nature– Spirit Dialectic in the Final System -- Bibliography -- Index