Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit
A Critical Guide
Cambridge Critical Guides Series

The essays in this volume address topics prominent in current debates about Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit, which originally appeared as the third part of his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817, 1827, 1830). Together, a group of internationally recognized Hegel scholars presents a sophisticated, well-researched, and considered account of Hegel's text, approaching it from different perspectives, philosophical schools, and traditions. Each essay focuses on a specific issue relevant to Hegel scholarship, carefully and clearly setting out established views of the text and putting forward incisive new interpretations. The essays will enable readers to obtain a broad yet analytically nuanced understanding of Hegel's thought and in particular of the Philosophy of Spirit, a rich and important work that has relevance for contemporary debates in philosophy of mind and action, philosophy of law and religion, ethics, aesthetics, and social and political philosophy.

Introduction: Hegel's Encyclopaedia philosophy of spirit Marina F. Bykova; Part I. Philosophy of Spirit and Hegel's Philosophical System: 1. The logic of Hegel's Encyclopaedia philosophy of spirit Paul Redding; 2. The origin and character of Hegel's concept of spirit Michael N. Forster; Part II. Philosophy of Subjective Spirit: 3. Hegel's critique of theoretical spirit: Kant's functionalist cognitive psychology in context Kenneth R. Westphal; 4. Derangements of the soul Allegra de Laurentiis; 5. Hegel's account of perceptual experience in his philosophy of subjective spirit Markus Gabriel; Part III. Philosophy of Objective Spirit: 6. The idea of a speculative philosophy of objective spirit Christian Krijnen; 7. Objective spirit: the pulse of self-consciousness Terry Pinkard; 8. On Hegel's account of selfhood and human sociality Marina F. Bykova; 9. Hegel's idea of the state Stephen Houlgate; Part IV. Philosophy of Absolute Spirit: 10. The 'absoluteness' of Hegel's absolute spirit Angelica Nuzzo; 11. Art as a mode of absolute spirit: the development and significance of Hegel's Encyclopaedia account of the philosophy of art Allen Speight; 12. Art, logic, and the human presence of spirit in Hegel's philosophy of absolute spirit Robert R. Williams.

Marina F. Bykova is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University. She is the author of Hegel's Interpretation of Thinking (1990) and The Mystery of Logic and the Secret of Subjectivity (1996). She is also editor of The German Idealism Reader: Ideas, Responses and Legacy (2018) as well as of the journal Russian Studies in Philosophy.