The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8100148 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wes Furlotte (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 272 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435536.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2982957316 |
| Open Library | OL28936141M |
| ISBN | 9781474435536 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This book challenges the unanimous rejection that has followed Hegel’s Naturphilosohie (1830). Systematically reconstructing Hegel’s conception of nature, the book explores the ways in which it functions as a ground that, nevertheless, perpetually poses problems for human freedom. The book starts by taking seriously Hegel’s characterization of nature as monstrous , a register at odds with the comprehensive order demanded by conceptual thought. The book then critically reads Hegel against Hegel: it analyzes what such a conception of nature must mean in terms of his notions of finite subjectivity and socio-political freedom. The book reveals that Hegelian nature holds a paradoxical status in his late philosophy. As an anterior precondition, it is crucial to the emergence of free self-relating subjectivity. Yet, it also threatens freedom’s subjective structure with destruction: biological disease, psychopathology, and symptomatic tensions within the body politic. The book demonstrates the importance of the ambivalent significations of Hegel’s Naturphilosophie for the entirety of his final system. Indeed, the problem of nature resides at the core of his project of freedom. Hegel, therefore, presents our contemporary world with a strikingly relevant position, one that forces us to rethink not only our received understanding of his philosophy, but our situation within the world. His system can be used to think the timely philosophical problems revolving around the nature-culture distinction to great effects that are still to be exhaustively explored. This potential constitutes the intrinsic merit of the book
Epistemology · Hegelianism · Subjectivity · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · georg wilhelm friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) · Philosophy of nature · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |