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Hegel's Antiquity' aims to summarize, contextualize, and criticize Hegel's understanding and treatment of major aspects of the classical world, approaching each of the major areas of his historical thinking in turn: politics, art, religion, philosophy, and history itself. The discussi...

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Main Author: Desmond, William D., 1974- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Classical presences.
Subjects:
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, > 1770-1831.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, > 1770-1831
Philosophy, Ancient.
Greece > Civilization.
Philosophie ancienne.
Grèce > Civilisation.
Civilization
Philosophy, Ancient
Greece
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Hegel's Antiquity
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Epigraph
  • 1: Hegel and the Ancient World
  • 1.1. Between Old and New
  • 1.2. A Historical Trio: Germany, Italy, Greece
  • 1.3. Hegel's Life and Intellectual Development
  • 1.4. One System in Four Formulae
  • 1.5. The Encyclopedic Ideal: Hegel and Wolfian Altertumswissenschaft
  • 1.6. Hegel's Antiquity: Overview
  • 2: Beautiful City, Lawful Empire, Rational State
  • 2.1. Politics of the Will
  • 2.2. Philosophy of Right: Moments of Antiquity
  • 2.2.1. Abstract Right
  • 2.2.2. Morality
  • 2.2.3. Ethical Life
  • 2.2.3.1. Families: Greek, Roman, Christian
  • 2.2.3.2. Civil Society
  • 2.2.3.3. State: Patriotism, Constitution, Great Men, War
  • 2.3. Lectures on the Philosophy of History: Ethical Life Evolving
  • 2.3.1. Beautiful City
  • 2.3.2. Lawful Empire
  • 2.4. The World-Spirit and its Own: Who Owns Ancient Art?
  • 3: Art
  • 3.1. Art, Arts, and the Classical Ideal
  • 3.2. System of the Individual Arts: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Poetry
  • 3.2.1. Architecture
  • 3.2.2. Sculpture
  • 3.2.3. Painting
  • 3.2.4. Music
  • 3.2.5. Poetry
  • 3.2.5.1. Epic
  • 3.2.5.2. Lyric
  • 3.2.5.3. Drama
  • 3.3. Finale: The End of Art?
  • 4: Religion
  • 4.1. The Dialectic of Religions: God, Gods, and Worship
  • 4.2. Greek Religion
  • 4.3. Roman Religion
  • 4.4. Early Christianity and Late Antiquity
  • 4.5. A Profane Prophet: 'I say unto you, "You must become God"'
  • 5: Philosophy
  • 5.1. Concepts of Philosophy
  • 5.2. Thales to Aristotle
  • 5.2.1. Presocratics
  • 5.2.2. Sophists and Socrates
  • 5.2.3. Plato
  • 5.2.4. Aristotle
  • 5.3. Three Hellenistic Systems
  • 5.3.1. Stoicism
  • 5.3.2. Epicureanism
  • 5.3.3. Scepticism
  • 5.4. The Neoplatonic Synthesis
  • 5.5. The Unfinished Synthesis
  • 6: History, Cosmos, Mind, and (Not Quite) Everything
  • 6.1. History and Philosophy
  • 6.2. Hegel's Greece and Rome in World History
  • 6.3. Hegel's Mediterranean, Earth, Big History, and Cosmic Mind
  • 6.4. The Living and the Dead: Between Antiquity and Modernity
  • Works Cited
  • Index