In Defense of Reason After Hegel

Richard Dien Winfield is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, where he has taught since 1982. He is the author of 23 other books on philosophy and one book on political policy.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Why We Are So Wise: Hegelian Reflections on whether Reason Can Be Enhanced; 2. Self-Determination in Logic and Reality; 3. Hegel’s Overcoming of the Overcoming of Metaphysics; 4. On Contradiction: Hegel versus Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus, and Kant; 5. Overcoming Actuality: How Hegel Frees Us from the Prison of Modality; 6. Time and Reason; 7. Hegel and the Problem of Consciousness; 8. Hegel and the Origin of Language; 9. The Logic of Right; 10. A Dream Deferred: From the US Constitution to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; 11. World Spirit on the Campaign Trail in Georgia: Can the Philosophy of Right Be a Guide to Social Reform?; 12. The Classical Nude and the Limits of Sculpture; Bibliography; Index.