Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521379236)

This is the most important book on Hegel to have appeared in the past ten years. The author offers a completely new interpretation of Hegel's idealism that focuses on Hegel's appropriation and development of Kant's theoretical project. Hegel is presented neither as a pre-critical metaphysician nor as a social theorist, but as a critical philosopher whose disagreements with Kant, especially on the issue of intuitions, enrich the idealist arguments against empiricism, realism, and naturalism. In the face of the dismissal of absolute idealism as either unintelligible or implausible, Pippin explains and defends an original account of the philosophical basis for Hegel's claims about the historical and social nature of self-consciousness and of knowledge itself.

Author: Robert B. Pippin
ISBN-10: 0521379237
ISBN-13: 9780521379236
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/24/1989
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.89d