The Self and its Body in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit 1st Edition by John Russon ISBN 0802084826 9780802084828

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ISBN 10: 0802084826

ISBN 13: 9780802084828 

Author: John Russon

A major criticism of Hegel’s philosophy is that it fails to comprehend the experience of the body. In this book, John Russon shows that there is in fact a philosophy of embodiment implicit in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Russon argues that Hegel has not only taken account of the body, but has done so in a way that integrates both modern work on embodiment and the approach to the body found in ancient Greek philosophy.

Although Russon approaches Hegel’s Phenomenology from a contemporary standpoint, he places both this standpoint and Hegel’s work within a classical tradition. Using the Aristotelian terms of ‘nature’ and ‘habit,’ Russon refers to the classical distinction between biological nature and a cultural ‘second nature.’ It is this second nature that constitutes, in Russon’s reading of Hegel, the true embodiment of human intersubjectivity. The development of spirit, as mapped out by Hegel, is interpreted here as a process by which the self establishes for itself an embodiment in a set of social and political institutions in which it can recognize and satisfy its rational needs. Russon concludes by arguing that self-expression and self-interpretation are the ultimate needs of the human spirit, and that it is the degree to which these needs are satisfied that is the ultimate measure of the adequacy of the institutions that embody human life.

This link with classicism – in itself a serious contribution to the history of philosophy -provides an excellent point of access into the Hegelian system. Russon’s work, which will prove interesting reading for any Hegel scholar, provides a solid and reliable introduction to the study of Hegel.

Table of contents:

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Introduction: The Project of Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology of the Body

Section A: Self-Conscious Selfhood
Chapter 1: Unhappy Consciousness and the Logic of Self-Conscious Selfhood

1. Stoicism

2. Scepticism

3. Unhappy Consciousness

Chapter 2: Reason and Dualism: The Category as the Immediacy of Unconditioned Self-Communion

1. Reason in General

2. Reason and Observation

3. Reason and Action

4. Reason and Responsibility

Section B: Embodiment
Chapter 3: The Condition of Self-Consciousness: The Body as the Phusis, Hexis, and Logos of the Self

1. Life and Desire: Phusis

2. Master and Slave: Bildung as Hexis

3. The Transition to Slavery: The Body as Logos

Chapter 4: The Zôion Politikon: The Body as the Institutions of Society

1. Sittlichkeit: Second-Nature as Nature

2. Bildung: Nature as the Denial of Nature

3. Conscience and Ethos

Section C: The Absolution of the Body
Chapter 5: Responsibility and Science: The Body as Logos and Pathêtikos Nous

1. Systematic Science as the Completion of Conscience

2. Dialectical Method and Otherness as Object

3. The Body of Knowledge: Logos and Pathêtikos Nous

Appendix: Hegel’s Explicit Remarks on ‘Body’
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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