Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
A Critical Guide
Cambridge Critical Guides Series

Hegel regarded his Enyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences as the work which most fully presented the scope of his philosophical system and its method. It is somewhat surprising, therefore, that scholars regularly accord it only a secondary status. This Critical Guide seeks to change that, with sixteen newly-written essays from an international group of leading Hegel scholars that shed much-needed light on both the whole and the parts of the Encyclopedia system. Topics include the structure and aim of the Encyclopedia system as a whole, the differences between the greater and lesser Logics, the role of nature in Hegel's thinking, and the shapes of absolute spirit as art, religion, and philosophy. This book will be invaluable to students and scholars with an interest in Hegel and the history of philosophy.

Introduction Sebastian Stein and Joshua Wretzel; 1. Logical and Natural Life: One Aspect of the Relation Between Hegel's Science of Logic and his Encyclopedia Robert Pippin; 2. Hegel's Encyclopedia as the Science of Freedom Sally Sedgwick; 3. Essence in Hegel's Encyclopedia and Science of Logic: The Problem of Form Stephen Houlgate; 4. The Concept's Freedom Jean-François Kervégan; 5. From Logic to Nature Christian Martin; 6. Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: The Expansion of Particularity as the Filling of Space and Time Ralph M. Kaufmann, Ansgar Lyssy and Christopher Yeomans; 7. Hegel's Anthropology: Transforming the Body Jane Dryden; 8. Hegel's Critique of Materialism Joshua Wretzel; 9. Hegel's Psychology: The Unity of Theoretical and Practical Mind Dean Moyar; 10. Political Ontology and Rational Syllogistic in Hegel's Objective Spirit Paul Redding; 11. Taking the System Seriously: On the Importance of 'Objective Spirit' for Hegel's Philosophy of Right Thom Brooks; 12. §§556-563: Art as a form of absolute spirit: the discursive, the non-discursive, the religious, and the political Terry Pinkard; 13. The stubbornness of nature in art: a reading of §§556, 558 and 560 of Hegel's Encyclopedia Ioannis Trisokkas; 14. The Encyclopedia's Notion of Religion Roberto Vinco; 15. Hegel's concept of philosophy: Spinozism in disguise? Sebastian Stein.

Sebastian Stein is Stipendiary Researcher at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He is co-editor of Hegel's Political Philosophy (with Thom Brooks, 2017) and Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy (with James Gledhill, 2019), and is the author of several journal articles and book chapters on post-Kantian idealism, Aristotle and Hegel.
Joshua Wretzel is Assistant Teaching Professor at Pennsylvania State University. He has published numerous articles on the German philosophical tradition in journals including the European Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Research and Hegel Bulletin.