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Hegel on Self-Consciousness Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit

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ISBN-10: 0691163413

ISBN-13: 9780691163413

Edition: 2010

Authors: Robert B. Pippin

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In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and that it attains its "satisfaction" only in another self-consciousness. Hegel on Self-Consciousness presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of these revolutionary claims, tracing their roots to Kant's philosophy and demonstrating their continued relevance for contemporary thought.As Robert Pippin shows, Hegel argues that we must understand Kant's account of the self-conscious nature of consciousness as a claim in practical philosophy, and that therefore we need radically different views of…    
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Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/3/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.74" long x 0.29" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of many books.