The Relevance of Hegel’s Concept of Philosophy

Luca Illetterati is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Padua, Italy. He is a member of the Board of the ‘Internationale Hegel Vereinigung’, President of the Italian Society for Theoretical Philosophy, and Coordinator of the scientific group on Classical German Philosophy at the University of Padua (www.hegelpd.it). Giovanna Miolli is a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Padua, Italy, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at the University of Genoa, Italy.

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1. Why Hegel’s Metaphilosophy Matters: An Introduction Luca Illetterati and Giovanna Miolli
Part I. Hegel’s Metaphilosophy
2. Metaphilosophical Project Konrad Utz
3. Hegel’s Philosophy of Philosophy Dietmar H. Heidemann
4. Science as Experience of Freedom: Hegel on the Scientific Nature of Philosophy Luca Illetterati
5. The Metaphilosophical Implications of Hegel’s Conception of Absolute Idealism as the True Philosophy Héctor Ferreiro
6. Absolute Method and Metaphilosophical Investigation Michela Bordignon
7. Hegel’s Metaphilosophy as Immanent Critique Eleonora Cugini
Part II. Hegel’s Metaphilosophy and its Aesthetic, Religious and Historical-political Dimensions
8. Between the Morning Dawn and the Evening Dusk? On Hegel’s Theory of Theoretical Practice Zdravko Kobe
9. Hegel’s Political Philosophy as Metaphilosophy Andrew Buchwalter
10. The Role of Religion in the Process of Self-Knowledge of Hegel’s Philosophy Francesca Menegoni
11. Philosophy without the ‘Meta’: Sensuous Practice and Theoretical Knowledge in Hegel’s Philosophy of Art Paul Kottman
12. Hegel’s Account of the Historicity of Philosophy Christophe Bouton
13. Philosophy and its Time Dina Emundts
14. The History of Philosophy as the Progress of Philosophy: Hegel’s Metaphilosophical Perspective Giulia La Rocca
Part III. Hegel’s Metaphilosophy in Context
15. The Twofold Purposiveness of Philosophical Activity: Hegel’s on Kant’s Idea of Philosophy Giovanna Luciano
16. ‘What the lot is not being lost on the long road from spirit to system!’: Jacobi’s non-philosophical contradiction of Hegel’s system of philosophy Peter Jonkers
17. Self-thinking Consciousness or Absolute Spirit: Hegel’s Response to Fichte’s Definition of Philosophy Sebastian Stein
18. Metaphilosophical Pluralism: Idealist Variations on Alleinphilosophie Kevin Harrelson
Part IV. Hegel’s Metaphilosophy and Contemporary Thought
19. How to Survive Hegel’s Absolute: Koyré, Kojève, Hyppolite and Metaphilosophy Jamila M.H. Mascat
20. Rorty and Hegel: Towards a Metaphilosophical Pragmatism Olivier Tinland
21. The Logic of Difference in Hegel and Derrida Johannes-Georg Schülein
22. Neo-Hegelian Metaphilosophy from Pittsburgh Luca Corti
23. Hegel’s Metaphilosophy as Ascriptivist Metaphysics Thomas Meyer and Michael Quante
24. ‘A Temple Without a Holy of Holies’: The Contemporary Relevance of Hegel’s Metaphysics Elena Tripaldi
25. Post-Analytic Philosophy and Hegelian Amphibians Paul Giladi
26. Hegel in Dialogue with Contemporary Metaphilosophy Giovanna Miolli
Index