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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817703203321

Autore

Stewart Jon (Jon Bartley)

Titolo

Idealism and existentialism : Hegel and nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy / / Jon Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2010

ISBN

1-282-64757-1

9786612647574

1-4411-0464-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in philosophy

Disciplina

190.9/034

Soggetti

Continental philosophy - History

Idealism, German - History

Existentialism - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-277) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hegel and the myth of reason -- Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit as a systematic fragment -- The architectonic of Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit -- Points of contact in the philosophy of religion of Hegel and Schopenhauer -- Kierkegaard's criticism of the absence of ethics in Hegel's system -- Kierkegaard's criticism of abstraction and his proposed solution: appropriation -- Kierkegaard's recurring criticism of Hegel's The good and conscience -- Hegel and Nietzsche on the death of tragedy and Greek ethical life -- Existentialist ethics -- Merleau-Ponty's criticisms of Sartre's theory of freedom -- Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on consciousness and bad faith.

Sommario/riassunto

The history of Continental philosophy is often conceived as being represented by two major schools: German idealism and phenomenology/existentialism. These two schools are frequently juxtaposed so as to highlight their purported radical differences. There is a commonly held view that an abrupt break occurred in the nineteenth century, resulting in a disdainful rejection of idealism in all its forms. This break is often located in the transition from Hegel to Kierkegaard. The history of philosophy in the first half of the nineteenth century has thus been read as a grand confrontation



between