Pinkard, T: Hegel's Naturalism

Preface; Introduction; Part One ; Chapter 1: Disenchanted Aristotelian Naturalism; A: Hegel's Aristotelian Turn; 1: Animal Life; 2: The Inwardness of Animal Life; B: From Animal Subjectivity to Human Subjectivity; C: Animal Life and the Will; Chapter 2: Self-Consciousness in the Natural World; A: Animal and Human Awareness; B: Consciousness of the World; C. Self-Consciousness; 1: Being at Odds with Oneself in Desire; 2: The Attempt at Being at One with Oneself as Mastery Over Others; 3. Masters, Slaves and Freedom; 4: The Truth of Mastery and Servitude; 5: Objectivity, Intuition and Representation; Part Two ; Chapter 3: The Self-Sufficient Good; A: Actualized Agency: The Sublation of Happiness; B: The Actually Free Will; C: The Impossibility of Autonomy and the Idea of Freedom; D. Being at One with Oneself as a Self-Sufficient Final End; Chapter 4: Inner Lives and Public Orientation; A. Failure in Forms of Life; B. The Phenomenology of a Form of Life; C. Greek Tensions, Greek Harmony; D: Empire and the Inner Life; Chapter Five: Public reasons, Private Reasons; A. Enlightenment and Individualism; B: Morality and Private Reasons; C. Ethical Life and Public Reasons; Chapter Six: The Inhabitable Alienation of Modern Life; A: Alienation as Uninhabitability; 1: Diderot's Dilemma; 2: Civil Society and the Balance of Interests; 3: Making the Sale and Getting at the Truth; B: Power: the Limits of Morality in Politics; 1. Bureaucratic Democracy?; 2: The Nation State?; Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Hegel as a Post-Hegelian; A. Self-Comprehension; 1: Hegelian Amphibians; 2: Second Nature and Wholeness; B: Final Ends?

Terry Pinkard is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University; author of German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism, Hegel: A Biography and Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason; and editor of Heinrich Heine on the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany.

original and very clear Robert Pippin, Times Literary Supplement