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Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel Allwill
Jacobi's polemical tract Concerning the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Herr Moses Mendelssohn propelled him to notoriety in 1785. This work, as well as David Hume on Faith, or Idealism and Realism, Jacobi to Fichte, and the novel Allwill, is included in George di Giovanni's translation. In a comprehensive introductory essay di Giovanni situates Jacobi in the historical and philosophical context of his time, and shows how Jacobi's life and work reflect the tensions inherent in the late Enlightenment.
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System und Systemkritik : Hegels Metaphysik absoluter Negativität und Jacobis Sprung
In der Reihe Hegel-Jahrbuch Sonderband (bis 2013 Hegel-Forschungen) werden Monographien, Editionen und Sammelbände publiziert, die Hegels philosophisches Werk und das seiner Schüler analysieren. Dabei wird zugleich die Aktualität der hegelschen Gedankenwelt diskutiert, wobei auch Bezüge zu anderen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen Beachtung finden.
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Heidelberg writings : journal publications
This work brings together, for the first time in English translation, Hegel's journal publications from his years in Heidelberg (1816-18), writings which have been previously either untranslated or only partially translated into English. The Heidelberg years marked Hegel's return to university teaching and represented an important transition in his life and thought. The translated texts include his important reassessment of the works of the philosopher F. H. Jacobi, whose engagement with Spinozism, especially, was of decisive significance for the philosophical development of German Idealism. They also include his most influential writing about contemporary political events, his essay on the constitutional assembly in his native Wurttemberg, which was written against the background of the dramatic political and social changes occurring in post-Napoleonic Germany. The translators have provided an introduction and notes that offer a scholarly commentary on the philosophical and political background of Hegel's Heidelberg writings.
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Introduction to Wölfflin's \On Right and Left in Images\
Modern art history's reliance on the comparative method is customarily evoked in the same breath as the name of one of its presumed late-ninetotinth-nnntury founders: Heinrich. Wolfflin.1 The pair of oppositions that Wolfflin set up in Renaissance und Bacock (1888) to distinguish the linear from the painterly style would eventually transform into general \"principles of art history\" in Kunstgeschichte Grundbegriffe (1915), to bo read by generations of students throughout the twentieth century. Between these two books, Wolfflin adopted a technique that lent his comparative argument considerable rhetorical power: starting with Die khssisischc Kunst (1899), he began to place images on the facing pages of his books to force his readers' eyes into comparing and contrasting them. Positioning a cropped image of Botticelli's Venus across the page from Lorenzo di Credi's, to use the example that opens Grundbegriffe. was a controlled experiment of sorts. Comparing the elbows of the two figures alone the energetic angles of the former, Wolfflin explained, to the domesticated curves of the latter stressed \"form\" and taught a graphic object lesson. Comparativism thus placed a tolerable amount of Hegelianism into neo-Kantian formalism; it injected the pedagogical force of the dialectic into an aesthetics that drew on physiological psychology to claim a relationship of immediacy between form and affect.
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System und Systemkritik: Hegels Metaphysik absoluter Negativitat und Jacobis Sprung
Trifft Jacobis unphilosophische Systemkritik auch Hegels Metaphysik absoluter Negativitat? Dessen System gilt als Hohepunkt systematisch-systemischen Philosophierens. Als solches fuhrt es ein Denken zur Vollendung, dessen Kern darin besteht, Inbegriff von Begrundung zu sein. Somit aber besetzt es den gesamten Raum des Denkbaren, in dem schon alle Kritik im und am Denken durchgefuhrt ist. Sinnvolle Kritik am System scheint unmoglich, ohne dieses zugleich zu affirmieren oder aber selbst der Sinnlosigkeit anheim zu fallen. Jacobi unternimmt den Versuch, einen Modus der Kritik zu finden, der einerseits aus der Systemlogik selbst erwachst, zugleich aber darin nicht verhaftet bleibt. Ihm gelingt dieses Kunststuck, indem er akkurate Rekonstruktion mit lebensweltlicher Erfahrung verschrankt und sich der Systemlogik mit einem Sprung entzieht. Das Sprunggeschehen der sogenannten Unphilosophie zu rekonstruieren und nun auch mit dem System des reifen Hegel zu konfrontieren, unternimmt diese Untersuchung. Die Leitfrage lautet dabei, ob Jacobi auch aus Hegels elaboriertem System gesprungen ware oder aber der erweiterte Systembegriff seine Kritik obsolet gemacht hat.
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“Ich begehre keinen freien Willen” I desire no free will
G.E. Lessing’s rejection of human freedom is grounded in his understanding that only God can be absolutely free. It seems therefore reasonable to assume that Lessing abandoned any notion of free human will. Good deeds only arise from the realization that truths must be sought and used for human activity, which necessarily has to be unrestricted and free of any interference by others. This article examines the problem of freedom and evil, Lessing’s apparent refusal to take part in the important discussion of this topic during the second half of the eighteenth century, and a juxtaposition of Lessing’s and Kant’s views on the matter.
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Autonomy, Negativity, and the Challenge of Spinozism in Hegel's Science of Logic
Hegel's Science of Logic weds a deduction of (broadly Kantian) categories with a vindication of unconditional self-determination. Motivating his project is the challenge of nihilism implicit in Spinoza's rationalism-cum-naturalism. Section one of this paper examines Spinozist 'substance' and Hegel's revision of the principle omnis determinatio est negatio. Section two analyzes the concept 'being-for-self' in relation to Kantian apperception and the Hegelian idea of sublation. Section three presents a novel view of Hegel's infamous identification of being and nothing at the opening of the Logic. The notions of unconditional self-determination, original synthetic unity, and absolute negativity are shown to govern Hegel's dual reception of Spinoza and Kant.
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Annihilating the Nothing: Hegel and Nishitani on The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism
In Nishitani’s The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism, Nishitani explores, among other related topics, the history of the problem of Nihilism in the West. Conspicuously absent from Nishitani’s historical analysis is the thought of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, who famously raised the charge of Nihilism against Fichte’s philosophy in 1799. As is evident from a variety of Hegel’s texts, Hegel explicitly responds to Jacobi’s charge against Speculative Idealism and designs his philosophy in part as a response to Jacobi’s charge of Nihilism. On the one hand, Nishitani fails to appreciate Hegel’s philosophy as a response to the problem of Nihilism because he has an incomplete possession of the history of the problem. On the other hand, Nishitani’s critique of Hegel begs the question. Nishitani’s dogmatic rejection of Hegel appears to be grounded in his methodological approach to the philosophy of history, which assumes the falsehood of Hegel’s account. Jacobi’s charge against Speculative Idealism consists in the Idealist’s failure to account for the very existence of the world. On his view, philosophy is Nihilism because the world disappears completely from philosophical speculation. Hegel attempts to overcome this charge of Nihilism by re-thinking the structure and content of reason.
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