Stephen Houlgate
Biographic Data
| ID | 468135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Houlgate |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Houlgate |
| SIGNATURE | HOULGATE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Robert Stern (1962–2024)
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Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: A Critical Guide
Hegel's Philosophy of Nature constitutes the second part of his mature philosophical system presented in the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, and covers an exceptionally broad spectrum of themes and issues, as Hegel considers the content and structure of how humanity approaches nature and how nature is understood by humanity. The essays in this volume bring together various perspectives on Hegel's Philosophy of Nature, emphasizing its…
Hegel on Comedy: From Art to Religion
La théorie de la tragédie de Hegel est à juste titre célèbre. Toutefois, le développement logique de l’art aboutit selon lui non à la tragédie mais à la comédie . Cet article compare ce que Hegel considère comme étant la véritable comédie (chez Aristophane et Shakespeare) et ce qu’il appelle « l’humour subjectif » (qu’il trouve, par exemple, chez Jean Paul) : alors que les humoristes manifestent liberté et maîtrise en se livrant à leurs fantaisie…
L'essence et la forme dans l' Encyclopédie et la Science de la logique
Dans la Logique de l'E ncyclopédie et la Science de la logique , la doctrine de l'essence est présentée avec une différence importante : la forme, la matière et le contenu sont étudiés en des endroits différents. Si cette logique est immanente, comment peut-il en exister deux versions ? En fait, il n'y a pas là deux logiques alternatives mais une même logique présentée de deux façons différentes. Cependant, la Science de la logique a la priorité …
Essence in Hegel's Encyclopedia and Science of Logic: The Problem of Form
Dans la Logique de l'E ncyclopédie et la Science de la logique , la doctrine de l'essence est présentée avec une différence importante : la forme, la matière et le contenu sont étudiés en des endroits différents. Si cette logique est immanente, comment peut-il en exister deux versions ? En fait, il n'y a pas là deux logiques alternatives mais une même logique présentée de deux façons différentes. Cependant, la Science de la logique a la priorité …
Responses to Critics of Hegel on Being
I must first express my heartfelt thanks to Susanne Herrmann-Sinai and Christoph Schuringa for convening this debate. I also owe a special debt of gratitude to the four commentators for generously taking the time to read and think about my book, and for their thought-provoking and challenging comments. I have responded to as many of the latter as I could, and I look forward to hearing or reading, on other occasions, further comments on my respons…
In Memoriam Zbigniew Andrzej Pełczyński OBE (29 December 1925–22 June 2021)
Zbigniew Pelczynski (Peczyski in Polish) was one of the most important figures in the 'Anglo-Saxon Hegel Renaissance', which began in the 1940s with the work of G. R. G
Hegel’s Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic
Karen Ng has produced an original and ambitious book that aims to defend a novel understanding of Hegel’s “idealism.” Such idealism, in Ng’s view, does not deny that things exist outside the mind, but it maintains that life is what “opens up the possibility of rendering things intelligible” (64). This “naturalized” idealism is indebted to what Ng takes to be Kant’s idea, set out in the Critique of Judgment, that “internal purposiveness”—exemplifi…
Hegel on Being: Hegel on Being
Quality and the Birth of Quantity in Hegel's 'Science of Logic' covers all material on the purpose and method of Hegel's dialectical logic and charts the crucial transition from the concept of quality to that of quantity, as well as providing an original account of Hegel's critique of Kant's antinomies across two chapters
Thomas Posch (1974–2019)
It was with great sadness that we learned in April 2019 of the death of the philosopher and scientist Thomas Posch at the age of 45. He had been severely ill for over two years. Posch achieved the rare distinction of completing two doctoral thesesone in philosophy ( From 2003 until his death he was a lecturer in astronomy, the history of science and philosophy at the University of Vienna, and in 2006 he was appointed as staff scientist at the Uni…
Right and Trust in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Enseñando a hablar inglés a la filosofía hegeliana
Right and Trust in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
According to Hegel, true freedom consists not just in arbitrariness, but in the free willing of right. Right in turn is fully realised in the laws and institutions of ethical life. The ethical subject, for Hegel, is a practical subject that acts in accordance with ethical laws; yet it is also a theoretical, cognitive subject that recognizes the laws and institutions of ethical life as embodiments of right. Such recognition can be self-conscious a…
Hegel on the Category of Quantity
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Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit': A Reader's Guide
Preface Note on the Text 1. Context 2. Overview of Themes 3. Reading the Text 4. Reception and Influence Notes Guide to Further Reading Index
A companion to Hegel
This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays that cover the whole range of Hegel's mature thought and his lasting influence. * A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophers * Essays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most up-to-date Hegel research * Contributions are drawn from across the world and from a wide variety of philosophical approaches and traditions * Examines Hegel's in…
Logic, spirit, and freedom in the state: Appreciative and critical thoughts on Adriaan Peperzak’s Modern Freedom
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. Covering all major aspects of Hegel's philosophy, the volume provides an introduction to his logic, epistemology, philosophy of mind, social and political philosophy, philosophy of nature and aesthetics. It includes essays by an internationally recognised team of Hegel scholars. The volume begins with Terry P…
Hegel and the Arts
Introduction: An Overview of Hegel's Aesthetics, by Stephen Houlgate 1. Symbolic, Classical, and Romantic by Terry Pinkard 2. Hegel's Architecture, by David Kolb 3. Hegel on the Beauty of Sculpture, by Stephen Houlgate 4. Carnation and the Eccentricity of Painting, by John Sallis 5. Hegel on Music, by Richard Eldridge 6. Hegel's Theory of Tragedy, by Stephen Houlgate 7. Art and History: Hegel on the End, the Beginning, and the Future of by Martin…
Thought and Experience in Hegel and McDowell
Why Hegel’s Concept Is Not the Essence of Things
The article explores Hegel's philosophical framework, emphasizing the transition from being and essence to the concept, where the concept represents self-determining being. Hegel's Logic is both a structure of thought and an ontology, illustrating how being evolves through stages such as becoming, quantity, and substance, culminating in the concept. The concept is not a static category but a dynamic, self-sustaining process that encompasses being…
The Opening of Hegel's Logic: From Being to Infinity
Hegel is one of the most important modern philosophers, whose thought influenced the development of existentialism, Marxism, pragmatism, hermeneutics and deconstruction. Yet Hegel's central text, the monumental Science of Logic, still remains for most philosophers (both figuratively and literally) a firmly closed book. The purpose of this title is to dispel the myths that surround the Logic and to show that Hegel's unjustly neglected text is a wo…
An introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth, and History
"This classic introduction to one of the most influential modern thinkers, G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831), has now been updated and expanded to make it even more comprehensive." "The book covers every aspect of Hegel's mature thought, including his philosophy of history, logic, phenomenology, philosophy of nature, philosophy of subjective spirit, political philosophy, aesthetics and philosophy of religion. In the course of the book, the author relates …
Substance, Causality, and the Question of Method in Hegel's Science of Logic
In the eyes of many, Hegel's Science of Logic appears to be a monstrous anachronism – a work, written thirty years after Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, that revives precisely the kind of naive metaphysics Kant had shown to be illegitimate. For Hegel, by contrast, the Logic represents the culmination of a philosophical development that Kant himself set in motion. Kant's great achievement, in Hegel's view, was to place at the center of philosophic…
Hegel's Critique of the Triumph of Verstand in Modernity
In his lectures on the philosophy of history Hegel passes this famous judgement on the French Revolution. “Anaxagoras had been the first to say that nous governs the world; but only now did humanity come to recognize that thought should rule spiritual actuality. This was thus a magnificent dawn”. What first gave rise to discontent in France, in Hegel's view, were the heavy burdens that pressed upon the people and the government's inability to pro…
Thought and Experience in Hegel and McDowell
A companion to Hegel
This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays that cover the whole range of Hegel's mature thought and his lasting influence. * A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophers * Essays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most up-to-date Hegel research * Contributions are drawn from across the world and from a wide variety of philosophical approaches and traditions * Examines Hegel's in…
Power, Egoism and the ‘Open’ Self in Nietzsche and Hegel
Conscience et volonte (de puissance) chez Hegel et chez Nietzsche. Comment N. ne peut accepter l'idee hegelienne (et chretienne) que la conscience humaine puisse ceder sur la primaute qu'elle accorde a son vouloir
Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics
This study of Hegel and Nietzsche evaluates and compares their work through their common criticism of the metaphysics for operating with conceptual oppositions such as being/becoming and egoism/altruism. Dr Houlgate exposes Nietzsche's critique as employing the distinction of Life and Thought, which itself constitutes a metaphysical dualism of the kind Nietzsche attacks. By comparison Hegel is shown to provide a more profound critique of metaphys…
Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Criticism of Metaphysics
Preface Abbreviations and translations 1. The Hegel-Nietzsche debate 2. Nietzsche's view of Hegel 3. Nietzsche and metaphysics 4. Hegel and metaphysics 5. Speculative thought and language in Hegel's philosophy 6. Hegel's conception of the judgement 7. Context and the immanence of rationality in Hegel's Phenomenology 8. Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy Notes Bibliography Index
Power, Egoism and the ‘Open’ Self in Nietzsche and Hegel
Conscience et volonte (de puissance) chez Hegel et chez Nietzsche. Comment N. ne peut accepter l'idee hegelienne (et chretienne) que la conscience humaine puisse ceder sur la primaute qu'elle accorde a son vouloir
Hegel's Ethical Thought
It is often assumed that Hegel's philosophy contains no practical dimension, no doctrine of how human beings should live, but is concerned exclusively with showing that human existence, as the product of reason, is already fully rational. As a consequence, even though Hegel's social and political thought (which is set out mainly in his Philosophy of Right ) has been the subject of extensive and detailed study over the years, few commentators have…
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Cambridge Companion to Hegel. Edited By Frederick C. Beiser. (Cambridge UP, 1993. Pp. viii + 518. Price £40.00 h/b, £12.95 p/b.) Stephen Houlgate Stephen Houlgate DePaul University, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 176, July 1994, Pages 389–392, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219621 Published: 01 July 1994
Hegel's Critique of the Triumph of Verstand in Modernity
In his lectures on the philosophy of history Hegel passes this famous judgement on the French Revolution. “Anaxagoras had been the first to say that nous governs the world; but only now did humanity come to recognize that thought should rule spiritual actuality. This was thus a magnificent dawn”. What first gave rise to discontent in France, in Hegel's view, were the heavy burdens that pressed upon the people and the government's inability to pro…
Substance, Causality, and the Question of Method in Hegel's Science of Logic
In the eyes of many, Hegel's Science of Logic appears to be a monstrous anachronism – a work, written thirty years after Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, that revives precisely the kind of naive metaphysics Kant had shown to be illegitimate. For Hegel, by contrast, the Logic represents the culmination of a philosophical development that Kant himself set in motion. Kant's great achievement, in Hegel's view, was to place at the center of philosophic…
Why Hegel’s Concept Is Not the Essence of Things
The article explores Hegel's philosophical framework, emphasizing the transition from being and essence to the concept, where the concept represents self-determining being. Hegel's Logic is both a structure of thought and an ontology, illustrating how being evolves through stages such as becoming, quantity, and substance, culminating in the concept. The concept is not a static category but a dynamic, self-sustaining process that encompasses being…
The Opening of Hegel's Logic: From Being to Infinity
Hegel is one of the most important modern philosophers, whose thought influenced the development of existentialism, Marxism, pragmatism, hermeneutics and deconstruction. Yet Hegel's central text, the monumental Science of Logic, still remains for most philosophers (both figuratively and literally) a firmly closed book. The purpose of this title is to dispel the myths that surround the Logic and to show that Hegel's unjustly neglected text is a wo…
An introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth, and History
"This classic introduction to one of the most influential modern thinkers, G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831), has now been updated and expanded to make it even more comprehensive." "The book covers every aspect of Hegel's mature thought, including his philosophy of history, logic, phenomenology, philosophy of nature, philosophy of subjective spirit, political philosophy, aesthetics and philosophy of religion. In the course of the book, the author relates …
Thought and Experience in Hegel and McDowell
Hegel and the Arts
Introduction: An Overview of Hegel's Aesthetics, by Stephen Houlgate 1. Symbolic, Classical, and Romantic by Terry Pinkard 2. Hegel's Architecture, by David Kolb 3. Hegel on the Beauty of Sculpture, by Stephen Houlgate 4. Carnation and the Eccentricity of Painting, by John Sallis 5. Hegel on Music, by Richard Eldridge 6. Hegel's Theory of Tragedy, by Stephen Houlgate 7. Art and History: Hegel on the End, the Beginning, and the Future of by Martin…
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. Covering all major aspects of Hegel's philosophy, the volume provides an introduction to his logic, epistemology, philosophy of mind, social and political philosophy, philosophy of nature and aesthetics. It includes essays by an internationally recognised team of Hegel scholars. The volume begins with Terry P…
Logic, spirit, and freedom in the state: Appreciative and critical thoughts on Adriaan Peperzak’s Modern Freedom
A companion to Hegel
This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays that cover the whole range of Hegel's mature thought and his lasting influence. * A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophers * Essays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most up-to-date Hegel research * Contributions are drawn from across the world and from a wide variety of philosophical approaches and traditions * Examines Hegel's in…
Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit': A Reader's Guide
Preface Note on the Text 1. Context 2. Overview of Themes 3. Reading the Text 4. Reception and Influence Notes Guide to Further Reading Index
Hegel on the Category of Quantity
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Right and Trust in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
According to Hegel, true freedom consists not just in arbitrariness, but in the free willing of right. Right in turn is fully realised in the laws and institutions of ethical life. The ethical subject, for Hegel, is a practical subject that acts in accordance with ethical laws; yet it is also a theoretical, cognitive subject that recognizes the laws and institutions of ethical life as embodiments of right. Such recognition can be self-conscious a…
Right and Trust in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Enseñando a hablar inglés a la filosofía hegeliana
Thomas Posch (1974–2019)
It was with great sadness that we learned in April 2019 of the death of the philosopher and scientist Thomas Posch at the age of 45. He had been severely ill for over two years. Posch achieved the rare distinction of completing two doctoral thesesone in philosophy ( From 2003 until his death he was a lecturer in astronomy, the history of science and philosophy at the University of Vienna, and in 2006 he was appointed as staff scientist at the Uni…
Hegel on Being: Hegel on Being
Quality and the Birth of Quantity in Hegel's 'Science of Logic' covers all material on the purpose and method of Hegel's dialectical logic and charts the crucial transition from the concept of quality to that of quantity, as well as providing an original account of Hegel's critique of Kant's antinomies across two chapters
In Memoriam Zbigniew Andrzej Pełczyński OBE (29 December 1925–22 June 2021)
Zbigniew Pelczynski (Peczyski in Polish) was one of the most important figures in the 'Anglo-Saxon Hegel Renaissance', which began in the 1940s with the work of G. R. G
Hegel’s Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic
Karen Ng has produced an original and ambitious book that aims to defend a novel understanding of Hegel’s “idealism.” Such idealism, in Ng’s view, does not deny that things exist outside the mind, but it maintains that life is what “opens up the possibility of rendering things intelligible” (64). This “naturalized” idealism is indebted to what Ng takes to be Kant’s idea, set out in the Critique of Judgment, that “internal purposiveness”—exemplifi…
Responses to Critics of Hegel on Being
I must first express my heartfelt thanks to Susanne Herrmann-Sinai and Christoph Schuringa for convening this debate. I also owe a special debt of gratitude to the four commentators for generously taking the time to read and think about my book, and for their thought-provoking and challenging comments. I have responded to as many of the latter as I could, and I look forward to hearing or reading, on other occasions, further comments on my respons…
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