{"product_id":"hegel-and-the-transformation-of-william-f-bristow-9780199290642","title":"Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique","description":"William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult \u003cem\u003ePhenomenology of Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e. Hegel describes the method of this work as a 'way of despair', meaning thereby that the reader who undertakes its inquiry must be open to the experience of self-loss through it. Whereas the existential dimension of Hegel's work has often been either ignored or regarded as romantic ornamentation, Bristow argues that it belongs centrally to Hegel's attempt to fulfil a demanding epistemological ambition. \u003cbr\u003eWith his \u003cem\u003eCritique of Pure Reason\u003c\/em\u003e, Kant expressed a new epistemological demand with respect to rational knowledge and presented a new method for meeting this demand. Bristow reconstructs Hegel's objection to Kant's Critical Philosophy, according to which Kant's way of meeting the epistemological demand of philosophical critique presupposes subjectivism, that is, presupposes the restriction of our knowledge to things as they are merely for us. Whereas Hegel in his early Jena writings rejects Kant's critical project altogether on this basis, he comes to see that the epistemological demand expressed in Kant's project must be met. Bristow argues that Hegel's method in the \u003cem\u003ePhenomenology of Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e takes shape as his attempt to meet the epistemological demand of Kantian critique without presupposing subjectivism. The key to Hegel's transformation of Kant's critical procedure, by virtue of which subjectivism is to be avoided, is precisely the existential or self-transformational dimension of Hegel's criticism, the openness of the criticizing subject to being transformed through the epistemological procedure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William F. Bristow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199290644\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199290642\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"William F. Bristow","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424986382591,"sku":"9780199290642","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b6e61206-afc7-49e9-8dd3-eb12d6498078.jpg?v=1761536215","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hegel-and-the-transformation-of-william-f-bristow-9780199290642","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}