Hegel’s Encyclopedic System

Sebastian Stein is currently a research associate and assistant lecturer at Heidelberg University where he is sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a project on philosophical method. He has published several chapters and journal articles on Kant, post-Kantian idealism and Aristotle and has guest-edited and contributed to a special volume of the Hegel Bulletin on Hegel and Aristotle (2020). Together with Thom Brooks, Dr. Stein has edited and contributed to the collection Hegel’s Practical Philosophy (2017) and with James Gledhill, he has edited and contributed to Hegel and contemporary practical philosophy (Routledge 2020). His chapter on absolute idealism features in the Blackwell Guide to Nineteenth Century Philosophy and as editor and contributor, he has a collection forthcoming on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and a critical guide to Hegel’s Encyclopedia.Joshua Wretzel is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University. He has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and the Max Kade German-American Research Institute, which funded stays at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and Universität Leipzig, respectively. His work on the German philosophical tradition is published in the European Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Research, Hegel Bulletin, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, and Continental Philosophy Review. He is co-editor, with Sebastian Stein, of Hegel’s Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences: A Critical Guide, forthcoming.

• 1. Introduction Sebastian Stein and Joshua Wretzel2. Hegel’s science of reason as a science of freedom: from Nuremberg to Heidelberg Klaus Vieweg 3. Hegel’s Heidelberg Encyclopedia as the principal work of a metaphysics of GeistJens Halfwassen4. Philosophy as the Science of FreedomLuca Illetterati5. Hegel’s System and the Negativity of DialecticAnton Friedrich Koch 6. The Encyclopedia as a Form of WorshipRoberto Vinco7. Between Religion and the Empirical Sciences: Hegel’s Concept of philosophical science according to the Introduction to the EncyclopediaFriedrike Schick 8. Temporal Strata of Historical Experience in Hegel’s EncyclopediaChristopher Yeomans 9. Hegel’s Logic as a System of Illegitimate TotalitiesMichaela Bordignon10. Nature’s Otherness: On the Status of Nature in Hegel’s Encyclopedic SystemJohannes-Georg Schülein11. The Two Souls: On the Difference Between Human and Animal Cognition in Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit and Philosophy of NatureLuca Corti12. Truth and Method in the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical SciencesJoshua Wretzel13. Objective Geist TodayJean-François Kervégan14. The Absolute Spirit as the Consummation of Hegel’s Concept of TruthTobias Dangel15. The Proximity of Philosophy to Religion: Hegel’s Evaluative ReasonDean Moyar16. Hegel’s notion of philosophy: the concept-based unity of self-referential universality and differentiated particularitySebastian Stein