Between Kant and Hegel
(June 1985)
Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism George di Giovanni - Translated and annotated by H. S. Harris - Translated and annotated by
This volume fills an important gap in the philosophical literature by providing an anthology of writings from the crucial generation of thinkers between Kant and Hegel. An introductory essay by di Giovanni fits these authors and their work into the context of the general reception of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.
Between Kant and Hegel includes a translation of the only significant reviews by Hegel in t...(Read More)
The first translation into English and the first detailed interpretation of Hegel's System der Sittlichkeit (1802-3) and of Philosophie des Geistes, the two earliest surviving versions of Hegel's social theory. Hegel's central concept of the spirit evolved in these two works. An 87-page interpretation by Harris precedes the translations.
"This edition by H. S. Harris and Sir Malcolm Knox continues the high quality of early Heg...(Read More)
The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy
(June 1977)
An English Translation of G. W. F. Hegel's Differenz des Fichte'schen und Schelling'schen Systems der Philosophie G.W.F. Hegel - Author Walter Cerf - Editor/translator H. S. Harris - Editor/translator
In this essay, Hegel attempted to show how Fichte's Science of Knowledge was an advance from the position of Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason, and how Schelling (and incidentally Hegel himself) had made a further advance from the position of Fichte.
Hegel finds the idealism of Fichte too abstractly subjective and formalistic, and he tries to show how Schelling's philosophy of nature is the remedy for these weaknesses. ...(Read More)
Hegel: Faith and Knowledge
(June 1977)
An English translation of G. W. F. Hegel's Glauben und Wissen G.W.F. Hegel - Author H. S. Harris - Editor/translator Walter Cerf - Editor/translator
As the title indicates, Faith and Knowledge deals with the relation between religious faith and cognitive beliefs, between the truth of religion and the truths of philosophy and science. Hegel is guided by his understanding of the historical situation: the individual alienated from God, nature, and community; and he is influenced by the new philosophy of Schelling, the Spinozistic Philosophy of Identity with its superb vision of the inner uni...(Read More)
