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Title: Hegel on Self-Consciousness
Condition: New
Subtitle: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit
Author: Robert B. Pippin
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0691163413
EAN: 9780691163413
ISBN: 9780691163413
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 03/11/2014
Description: In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and that it attains its "satisfaction" only in another self-consciousness. Hegel on Self-Consciousness presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of these revolutionary claims, tracing their roots to Kant's philosophy and demonstrating their continued relevance for contemporary thought. As Robert Pippin shows, Hegel argues that we must understand Kant's account of the self-conscious nature of consciousness as a claim in practical philosophy, and that therefore we need radically different views of human sentience, the conditions of our knowledge of the world, and the social nature of subjectivity and normativity. Pippin explains why this chapter of Hegel's Phenomenology should be seen as the basis of much later continental philosophy and the Marxist, neo-Marxist, and critical-theory traditions. He also contrasts his own interpretation of Hegel's assertions with influential interpretations of the chapter put forward by philosophers John McDowell and Robert Brandom.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Weight: 142g
Book Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
Release Year: 2014

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