Chapter 1. Introduction: Hegel's Concept of Life
Chapter 2. "Kant's Great Service to Philosophy": Purposiveness and
Conceptual Form
Chapter 3. Hegel's Speculative Identity Thesis
Chapter 4. Actuality and the Genesis of the Concept
Chapter 5. Life as Ground, and the Limits of the Subjective
Concept
Chapter 6. The Objectivity of the Concept
Chapter 7. Life as the Immediate Idea
Chapter 8. The Idea of Cognition and Absolute Method
Karen Ng is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She specializes in nineteenth-century post-Kantian philosophy and Frankfurt School Critical Theory.
"One of the most prodigious works on Hegel, Ng's is a book that
will inform Hegel scholarship and scholarship in Idealism for
decades to come. Perhaps more importantly, it augments an
increasingly compelling basis for the rethinking and reframing of
contemporary philosophical issues to capitalize on the dynamic
insights of Hegel's thought, helping us to leave farther behind the
hackneyed clichés of the formulaic Hegelianism that became
commonplace
outside Hegel studies. This book is a must for serious scholars on
Hegel and for those interested in the philosopher who, more than
most in the modern world, substantially influenced an unusual range
of academic
and sociopolitical movements. Ng's book is a masterpiece." -- Notre
Dame Philosophical Reviews
"In Hegel's Concept of Life, Karen Ng tackles head-on the most
puzzling element in Hegel's theoretical philosophy: the relation of
self-consciousness and life. With subtlety and rigor she fulfills
all three desiderata of a new interpretation. She retells the story
of Hegel's development and the role of Kant's critical philosophy
therein, provides a new reading of the famously enigmatic
self-consciousness chapter of the Phenomenology of Spirit,
and demonstrates that her reading accounts for the key moves in the
final part of the Science of Logic. With her successful integration
of the themes of the unity of judgment and the unity of life, Ng
sets a new
standard for interpreting Hegel's idealism." -- Dean Moyar,
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
"In the emerging disputes about the status of Hegel's non-standard
naturalism, Karen Ng has found new ground to explore in the
relation of Hegel's Logic to Kant's third Critique. She does this
convincingly and with great brio. Her book marks a new stage in
Hegel scholarship." -- Terry Pinkard, University Professor of
Philosophy, Georgetown University
"In this original, clear and compelling interpretation of Hegel,
Karen Ng builds a strong case for a broadly naturalistic account
that takes the dynamics of living processes to the very core of his
Science of Logic. Far from being some rationalist fantasy, Hegel's
logically and metaphysically central notion of "the Concept", by
drawing on and transforming ideas from Kant's Critique of Judgment,
gives expression to the dynamics of life as the
ultimate ground of reason. Such a focus allows us to see a unity
within Hegel's method stretching from his early Schelling-inspired
critique of Fichte to his later systematic thought. This is a
philosophically rich
contribution to our understanding of this profound but difficult
thinker" -- Paul Redding, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, The
University of Sydney
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