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OverviewThis book provides a critical analysis of Hegel’s Anthropology, a long-neglected treatise dedicated to the psyche, or “soul,” that bridges Hegel’s philosophy of organic nature with his philosophy of subjective spirit. Allegra de Laurentiis recuperates this overlooked text, guiding readers through its essential arguments and ideas. She shows how Hegel conceives of the “sublation” of natural motion, first into animal sentience and then into the felt presentiment of selfhood, all the way to the threshold of self-reflexive thinking. She discusses the Anthropology in the context of Hegel’s mature system of philosophy (the Encyclopaedia) while also exposing some of the scientific and philosophical sources of his conceptions of unconscious states, psychosomatism, mental pathologies, skill formation, memorization, bodily habituation, and the self-conditioning capacities of our species. This treatise on the becoming of anthropos, she argues, displays the power and limitations of Hegel’s idealistic “philosophy of the real” in connecting such phenomena as erect posture, a discriminating hand, and the forward gaze to the emergence of the human ego, or the structural disintegration of the social world to the derangement of the individual mind. A groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on Hegel and nineteenth-century philosophy, this book shows that the Anthropology is essential to understanding Hegel’s concept of spirit, not only in its connection with nature but also in its more sophisticated realizations as objective and absolute spirit. Future scholarship on this subject will recount—and build upon—de Laurentiis’s innovative study. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Allegra de LaurentiisPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press Weight: 0.345kg ISBN: 9780810143760ISBN 10: 0810143763 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 30 August 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAbbreviations Preface Introduction: Spirit’s Humble Beginnings 1. On the character of Hegel’s text 2. Text and Context Chapter 1. Aristotelian Roots 1. On unraveling the sense of psuche 2. Hylomorphism 3. The real unity of the Cartesian man 4. Return to the roots: being-soul Chapter 2. Life, or die Weltseele 1. Nature exceeds itself 2. Goethe’s UrphÄnomen 3. Hegel’s Urteil 4. Natural spirit Chapter 3. False Enigmas and Real Beginnings 1. Mind-body conundrums and the meaning of Idealism 2. The soul begins as world-soul (kosmos zoon empsuchon) Chapter 4. Animal Life, or das tierische Subjekt 1. The strange case of the human soul 2. One genealogy, many races 3. From Enlightenment to Reaction: Johann Blumenbach to James Hunt Chapter 5. No Longer Just Animal Life 1. The soul of peoples 2. Kinship and the individual: disposition, temperament, character 3. Kinship and the individual: age, sexuality and the patterns of life Chapter 6. Premonitions of Selfhood, or die ahnende Seele 1. Organic sensibility and psyche’s sentience 2. From sentience to self-feeling: a matrix for the ego 3. The monadic soul: on dreaming, fetal life and hypnosis Chapter 7. Disorders 1. Healthy and diseased schisms of the soul 2. Leading a twofold life: on double genii and bipolar magnets 3. Out-of-joint times and inner derangement Conclusion. Inhabiting the World, or die Gewohnheit 1. Spirit builds itself a home 2. On divine sparks, unnatural freedom, and other human matters Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsDe Laurentiis' masterful book will change our ways of understanding Hegel's concept of spirit in its entirety. By leading us back to spirit's humble animal-human beginnings, this historically and exegetically rigorous work brings to the foreground a discipline central to Hegel's philosophy yet heretofore neglected. This book shows that there is in Hegel's Anthropology a variety of issues resonating with our contemporary sensibility that knocks you dizzy. --Angelica Nuzzo, author of Approaching Hegel's Logic, Obliquely: Melville, Moliere, Beckett This excellent book is a wide-ranging and very welcome study of Hegel's unjustly neglected Anthropology. De Laurentiis examines Hegel's rich analyses of the mind-body relation, dreams, and psychiatric illness, and relates them, with subtle attention to detail, both to his metaphysical logic and to the historical context on which he draws--a context extending from Aristotle to eighteenth and nineteenth-century scientists, such as Blumenbach and Bichat. De Laurentiis also highlights the enduring relevance of Hegel's ideas for the modern understanding of psychosomatic states and mental illness. Her book will be essential reading for all those interested in Hegel's philosophy of mind and spirit. --Stephen Houlgate, author of Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit' A Reader's Guide For all the stress upon 'embodiment' in contemporary philosophy and especially in Hegel scholarship, these discussions remain stymied by various versions or specters of mind/body dualism. Hegel's subtle and penetrating re-examination of Aristotle's De Anima and of a wealth of historical and contemporaneous medical literature shows that there is no problem of how mind and body interact or relate, because within the anthropological soul, they are identical, insofar as animation is the form of the soul's embodiment, whilst the soul's embodiment is its embodiment, not its vehicle, nor its mere functional(ist) 'realization.' Hegel develops a cogent, illuminating non-reductive identity theory, by addressing the question, 'How must an organic being be structured such that it affords mentality?' (Hegel's philosophy of nature has, inter alia, addressed the question, 'How must nature be structured, such that some of it affords organic life?') Many historical theories which Hegel critically examines are shown by de Laurentiis to remain germane insofar as they have direct contemporary counterparts. This is a very lucid, incisive, insightful, well-matured work of philosophical, critical, historical and textual scholarship; a major achievement equally useful to students, to philosophers, to Hegel experts and to scholars in allied disciplines. Rich in insights and revelations, judicious in interpretation and assessment, it is a philosophical pleasure and benefit at every turn. --Kenneth R. Westphal, coauthor of The Palgrave Hegel Handbook Many scholars would like to ignore Hegel's Anthropology because it does not accord with their view of what he ought to have said. But not Allegra de Laurentiis, who reveals that the Anthropology is far from being an embarrassment; it contains profound reflections that illuminate many aspects of Hegel's philosophy. This important book makes clear that the Anthropology is not just a Hegelian cabinet of curios, but an integral part of Hegel's system that has been unduly neglected. In particular, de Laurentiis's discussion of Hegel's fascinating treatment of madness is the clearest, and the most interesting, that I have read. --Glenn Alexander Magee, author of Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition Many scholars would like to ignore Hegel's Anthropology because it does not accord with their view of what he ought to have said. But not Allegra de Laurentiis, who reveals that the Anthropology is far from being an embarrassment; it contains profound reflections that illuminate many aspects of Hegel's philosophy. This important book makes clear that the Anthropology is not just a Hegelian cabinet of curios, but an integral part of Hegel's system that has been unduly neglected. In particular, de Laurentiis's discussion of Hegel's fascinating treatment of madness is the clearest, and the most interesting, that I have read. --Glenn Alexander Magee, author of Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition For all the stress upon 'embodiment' in contemporary philosophy and especially in Hegel scholarship, these discussions remain stymied by various versions or specters of mind/body dualism. Hegel's subtle and penetrating re-examination of Aristotle's De Anima and of a wealth of historical and contemporaneous medical literature shows that there is no problem of how mind and body interact or relate, because within the anthropological soul, they are identical, insofar as animation is the form of the soul's embodiment, whilst the soul's embodiment is its embodiment, not its vehicle, nor its mere functional(ist) 'realization.' Hegel develops a cogent, illuminating non-reductive identity theory, by addressing the question, 'How must an organic being be structured such that it affords mentality?' (Hegel's philosophy of nature has, inter alia, addressed the question, 'How must nature be structured, such that some of it affords organic life?') Many historical theories which Hegel critically examines are shown by de Laurentiis to remain germane insofar as they have direct contemporary counterparts. This is a very lucid, incisive, insightful, well-matured work of philosophical, critical, historical and textual scholarship; a major achievement equally useful to students, to philosophers, to Hegel experts and to scholars in allied disciplines. Rich in insights and revelations, judicious in interpretation and assessment, it is a philosophical pleasure and benefit at every turn. --Kenneth R. Westphal, coauthor of The Palgrave Hegel Handbook Many scholars would like to ignore Hegel's Anthropology because it does not accord with their view of what he ought to have said. But not Allegra de Laurentiis, who reveals that the Anthropology is far from being an embarrassment; it contains profound reflections that illuminate many aspects of Hegel's philosophy. This important book makes clear that the Anthropology is not just a Hegelian cabinet of curios, but an integral part of Hegel's system that has been unduly neglected. In particular, de Laurentiis's discussion of Hegel's fascinating treatment of madness is the clearest, and the most interesting, that I have read. --Glenn Alexander Magee, author of Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition DeLaurentiis' masterful book will change our ways of understanding Hegel's concept of spirit in its entirety. By leading us back to spirit's humble animal-human beginnings, this historically and exegetically rigorous work brings to the foreground a discipline central to Hegel's philosophy yet heretofore neglected. This book shows that there is in Hegel's Anthropology a variety of issues resonating with our contemporary sensibility that knocks you dizzy. --Angelica Nuzzo, author of Approaching Hegel's Logic, Obliquely: Melville, Moliere, Beckett For all the stress upon 'embodiment' in contemporary philosophy and especially in Hegel scholarship, these discussions remain stymied by various versions or specters of mind/body dualism. Hegel's subtle and penetrating re-examination of Aristotle's De Anima and of a wealth of historical and contemporaneous medical literature shows that there is no problem of how mind and body interact or relate, because within the anthropological soul, they are identical, insofar as animation is the form of the soul's embodiment, whilst the soul's embodiment is its embodiment, not its vehicle, nor its mere functional(ist) 'realization.' Hegel develops a cogent, illuminating non-reductive identity theory, by addressing the question, 'How must an organic being be structured such that it affords mentality?' (Hegel's philosophy of nature has, inter alia, addressed the question, 'How must nature be structured, such that some of it affords organic life?') Many historical theories which Hegel critically examines are shown by de Laurentiis to remain germane insofar as they have direct contemporary counterparts. This is a very lucid, incisive, insightful, well-matured work of philosophical, critical, historical and textual scholarship; a major achievement equally useful to students, to philosophers, to Hegel experts and to scholars in allied disciplines. Rich in insights and revelations, judicious in interpretation and assessment, it is a philosophical pleasure and benefit at every turn. --Kenneth R. Westphal, coauthor of The Palgrave Hegel Handbook Many scholars would like to ignore Hegel's Anthropology because it does not accord with their view of what he ought to have said. But not Allegra de Laurentiis, who reveals that the Anthropology is far from being an embarrassment; it contains profound reflections that illuminate many aspects of Hegel's philosophy. This important book makes clear that the Anthropology is not just a Hegelian cabinet of curios, but an integral part of Hegel's system that has been unduly neglected. In particular, de Laurentiis's discussion of Hegel's fascinating treatment of madness is the clearest, and the most interesting, that I have read. --Glenn Alexander Magee, author of Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition """De Laurentiis' masterful book will change our ways of understanding Hegel's concept of spirit in its entirety. By leading us back to spirit's humble animal-human beginnings, this historically and exegetically rigorous work brings to the foreground a discipline central to Hegel's philosophy yet heretofore neglected. This book shows that there is in Hegel's Anthropology a variety of issues resonating with our contemporary sensibility that knocks you dizzy."" --Angelica Nuzzo, author of Approaching Hegel's Logic, Obliquely: Melville, Moli�re, Beckett ""This excellent book is a wide-ranging and very welcome study of Hegel's unjustly neglected Anthropology. De Laurentiis examines Hegel's rich analyses of the mind-body relation, dreams, and psychiatric illness, and relates them, with subtle attention to detail, both to his metaphysical logic and to the historical context on which he draws--a context extending from Aristotle to eighteenth and nineteenth-century scientists, such as Blumenbach and Bichat. De Laurentiis also highlights the enduring relevance of Hegel's ideas for the modern understanding of psychosomatic states and mental illness. Her book will be essential reading for all those interested in Hegel's philosophy of mind and spirit."" --Stephen Houlgate, author of Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit' A Reader's Guide ""For all the stress upon 'embodiment' in contemporary philosophy and especially in Hegel scholarship, these discussions remain stymied by various versions or specters of mind/body dualism. Hegel's subtle and penetrating re-examination of Aristotle's De Anima and of a wealth of historical and contemporaneous medical literature shows that there is no problem of how mind and body interact or relate, because within the anthropological soul, they are identical, insofar as animation is the form of the soul's embodiment, whilst the soul's embodiment is its embodiment, not its vehicle, nor its mere functional(ist) 'realization.' Hegel develops a cogent, illuminating non-reductive identity theory, by addressing the question, 'How must an organic being be structured such that it affords mentality?' (Hegel's philosophy of nature has, inter alia, addressed the question, 'How must nature be structured, such that some of it affords organic life?') Many historical theories which Hegel critically examines are shown by de Laurentiis to remain germane insofar as they have direct contemporary counterparts. This is a very lucid, incisive, insightful, well-matured work of philosophical, critical, historical and textual scholarship; a major achievement equally useful to students, to philosophers, to Hegel experts and to scholars in allied disciplines. Rich in insights and revelations, judicious in interpretation and assessment, it is a philosophical pleasure and benefit at every turn."" --Kenneth R. Westphal, coauthor of The Palgrave Hegel Handbook ""Many scholars would like to ignore Hegel's Anthropology because it does not accord with their view of what he ought to have said. But not Allegra de Laurentiis, who reveals that the Anthropology is far from being an embarrassment; it contains profound reflections that illuminate many aspects of Hegel's philosophy. This important book makes clear that the Anthropology is not just a Hegelian cabinet of curios, but an integral part of Hegel's system that has been unduly neglected. In particular, de Laurentiis's discussion of Hegel's fascinating treatment of madness is the clearest, and the most interesting, that I have read."" --Glenn Alexander Magee, author of Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition" Author InformationALLEGRA DE LAURENTIIS is a professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Subjects in the Ancient and Modern World: On Hegel's Theory of Subjectivity, the editor of Hegel and Metaphysics: On Logic and Ontology in the System, and the coeditor of The Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |