Brady Bowman - Böcker

This work brings together, for the first time in English translation, Hegel's journal publications from his years in Heidelberg (1816-18), writings which have been previously either untranslated or only partially translated into English. The Heidelberg years marked Hegel's return to university teaching and represented an important transition in his life and thought. The translated texts include his important reassessment of the works of the philosopher F. H. Jacobi, whose engagement with Spinozism, especially, was of decisive significance for the philosophical development of German Idealism. They also include his most influential writing about contemporary political events, his essay on the constitutional assembly in his native Württemberg, which was written against the background of the dramatic political and social changes occurring in post-Napoleonic Germany. The translators have provided an introduction and notes that offer a scholarly commentary on the philosophical and political background of Hegel's Heidelberg writings.

Hegel's doctrines of absolute negativity and 'the Concept' are among his most original contributions to philosophy and they constitute the systematic core of dialectical thought. Brady Bowman explores the interrelations between these doctrines, their implications for Hegel's critical understanding of classical logic and ontology, natural science and mathematics as forms of 'finite cognition', and their role in developing a positive, 'speculative' account of consciousness and its place in nature. As a means to this end, Bowman also re-examines Hegel's relations to Kant and pre-Kantian rationalism, and to key post-Kantian figures such as Jacobi, Fichte and Schelling. His book draws from the breadth of Hegel's writings to affirm a robustly metaphysical reading of the Hegelian project, and will be of great interest to students of Hegel and of German Idealism more generally.

Hegel's doctrines of absolute negativity and 'the Concept' are among his most original contributions to philosophy and they constitute the systematic core of dialectical thought. Brady Bowman explores the interrelations between these doctrines, their implications for Hegel's critical understanding of classical logic and ontology, natural science and mathematics as forms of 'finite cognition', and their role in developing a positive, 'speculative' account of consciousness and its place in nature. As a means to this end, Bowman also re-examines Hegel's relations to Kant and pre-Kantian rationalism, and to key post-Kantian figures such as Jacobi, Fichte and Schelling. His book draws from the breadth of Hegel's writings to affirm a robustly metaphysical reading of the Hegelian project, and will be of great interest to students of Hegel and of German Idealism more generally.

This work brings together, for the first time in English translation, Hegel's journal publications from his years in Heidelberg (1816-18), writings which have been previously either untranslated or only partially translated into English. The Heidelberg years marked Hegel's return to university teaching and represented an important transition in his life and thought. The translated texts include his important reassessment of the works of the philosopher F. H. Jacobi, whose engagement with Spinozism, especially, was of decisive significance for the philosophical development of German Idealism. They also include his most influential writing about contemporary political events, his essay on the constitutional assembly in his native Württemberg, which was written against the background of the dramatic political and social changes occurring in post-Napoleonic Germany. The translators have provided an introduction and notes that offer a scholarly commentary on the philosophical and political background of Hegel's Heidelberg writings.

This new and accessible translation of the 19th-century German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte is essential reading for any student of “the complete Fichte”.Presented as a series of eleven “popular” lectures on the philosophy of religion, Fichte’s Guide to the Blessed Life (1806) holds a special place in his oeuvre. As the first public presentation of his views on religion since his stormy dismissal from Jena on charges of atheism, it is Fichte’s main contribution to the philosophy of religion and the best introduction to his later thought.Taking advantage of modern Fichte scholarship and the historical-critical edition of his works, Brady Bowman presents the first English translation of Guide to the Blessed Life since the 19th century. Accompanied by an introduction, glossary and notes from the translator, the text grants insight into Fichte’s thinking on atheism in the aftermath of the Jena controversy.His lectures represent a new phase in the German Idealist response to Spinoza’s pantheistic conception of the intellectual love of God as a kind of intuitive science, a response directly comparable to those of Hegel in the Phenomenology of Spirit and Schelling in the Freedom Essay. Key themes from Fichte’s better-known early work come together here in a common focus: the intimate relation of speculative thought to lived experience, the rigorous derivation of forms of consciousness from an original act of self-differentiation, and the re-establishment of a notion of the absolute at the center of transcendental philosophy.Now available in English, this critical translation opens up an under-studied document of philosophical creativity from a pivotal phase of German Idealist thought. The Guide is Fichte at the height of his powers —as a public orator, a metaphysician and phenomenological observer of human consciousness, an interpreter of Scripture, and as a moralist and social critic.