Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to the Later Heidegger by Pattison, George -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Front Cover Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction

Life and influence Scope of the inquiry Text of the Introduction Varieties of history Predecessors Structure of the inquiry

Part 1: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS

2 Presuppositions

Logic of consciousness Scepticism Idealist metaphysics Double meanings

3 Subject and infinite power

Preliminary observations Immanence and transcendence

4 Concept and spirit

Idea and concept From nature to spirit The philosophical tradition Ordinary usage Forms of spirit

5 Freedom

Everyday thought and philosophy Ethical life Objectivity and subjectivity Being at home Consciousness and realisation

INTERVAL

6 From system to history

Dialectical categories Recognition Actual and rational

Part 2: The COURSE OF HISTORY

7 Passion and conquest

Interests States of mind The world’s court of judgement Might and right

8 The cunning of reason

Types of purpose Kant’s conception Principles of development Literal truths Ancients and moderns

9 Peoples

Ethnic diversity Non-European peoples Eurocentricty Imperialism

10 States

Forms of state Beginnings of history Role of memory

11 The end of history

Kojève The last stage Two forms of development Morning prayer Poverty, politics and religion A vanished world Gates of hell Recognition and equality

12 The ways of God

Problem of evil Divine comedy Death of God Consolations of immortality The empirical record World history in the twentieth century Responsibilities

Notes Bibliography Index