Stephen Houlgate is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics (1986), An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History (1991, 2005) and The Opening of Hegel's Logic: From Being to Infinity (2006), and his edited volumes include Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature (1998), The Hegel Reader (1998), and G.W.F. Hegel: Outlines of the Philosophy of Right (2008). He has served as Vice President and President of the Hegel Society of America and is a former editor of the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain.

Michael Baur is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. He is Secretary of the Hegel Society of America and has published widely on phenomenology, critical theory, philosophy of law, and nineteenth-century continental philosophy, and on thinkers including Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Aristotle, and Aquinas.

This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays that cover the whole range of Hegel's mature thought and his lasting influence.
* A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophers
* Essays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most up-to-date Hegel research
* Contributions are drawn from across the world and from a wide variety of philosophical approaches and traditions
* Examines Hegel's influence on a range of thinkers, from Kierkegaard and Marx to Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida
* Begins with a chronology of Hegel's life and work and is then split into sections covering topics such as Philosophy of Nature, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Religion

Notes on Contributors ix
Chronology of Hegel's Life and Work xv
G.W.F. Hegel: An Introduction to His Life and Thought 1
Stephen Houlgate
Part I Early Writings 21
1 Religion, Love, and Law: Hegel's Early Metaphysics of Morals 23
Katerina Deligiorgi
Part II Phenomenology of Spirit 45
2 The Project of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 47
John Russon
3 Self-Consciousness, Anti-Cartesianism, and Cognitive Semantics in Hegel's 1807 Phenomenology 68
Kenneth R. Westphal
4 Spirit as the "Unconditioned" 91
Terry Pinkard
Part III Logic 109
5 Thinking Being: Method in Hegel's Logic of Being 111
Angelica Nuzzo
6 Essence, Refl exion, and Immediacy in Hegel's Science of Logic 139
Stephen Houlgate
7 Conceiving 159
John W. Burbidge
Part IV Philosophy of Nature 175
8 Hegel and the Sciences 177
Thomas Posch
9 The Transition to Organics: Hegel's Idea of Life 203
Cinzia Ferrini
Part V Philosophy of Subjective Spirit 225
10 Hegel's Solution to the Mind-Body Problem 227
Richard Dien Winfield
11 Hegel's Philosophy of Language: The Unwritten Volume 243
Jere O'Neill Surber
Part VI Philosophy of Right 263
12 Hegel on the Empty Formalism of Kant's Categorical Imperative 265
Sally Sedgwick
13 The Idea of a Hegelian 'Science' of Society 281
Frederick Neuhouser
14 Hegel's Political Philosophy 297
Allen W. Wood
Part VII Philosophy of History 313
15 "The Ruling Categories of the World": The Trinity in Hegel's Philosophy of History and The Rise and Fall of Peoples 315
Robert Bernasconi
16 Hegel and Ranke: A Re-examination 332
Frederick C. Beiser
Part VIII Aesthetics 351
17 Hegel and the "Historical Deduction" of the Concept of Art 353
Allen Speight
18 Soundings: Hegel on Music 369
John Sallis
Part IX Philosophy of Religion 385
19 Love, Recognition, Spirit: Hegel's Philosophy of Religion 387
Robert R. Williams
20 Hegel's Proofs of the Existence of God 414
Peter C. Hodgson
Part X History of Philosophy 431
21 Hegel's Aristotle: Philosophy and Its Time 433
Alfredo Ferrarin
22 From Kant's Highest Good to Hegel's Absolute Knowing 452
Michael Baur
Part XI Hegel and Post-Hegelian Thought 475
23 Hegel and Marx 477
Andrew Chitty
24 Kierkegaard and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge 501
Jon Stewart
25 Thinking of Nothing: Heidegger's Criticism of Hegel's Conception of Negativity 519
Daniel O. Dahlstrom
26 Adorno's Reconception of the Dialectic 537
Brian O'Connor
27 Hegel and Pragmatism 556
Robert Stern
28 The Analytic Neo-Hegelianism of John McDowell and Robert Brandom 576
Paul Redding
29 Différance as Negativity: The Hegelian Remains of Derrida's Philosophy 594
Karin de Boer
30 You Be My Body for Me: Body, Shape, and Plasticity in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 611
Catherine Malabou and Judith Butler
Index 641