A Spirit of Trust, A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology by Brandom, Robert B. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Reference Abbreviations Introduction: A Pragmatist Semantic Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology

Part One. Semantics and Epistemology: Knowing and Representing the Objective World

1. Conceptual Realism and the Semantic Possibility of Knowledge

I. Introduction II. Two Dimensions of Intentionality and Two Orders of Explanation III. Two Kantian Ideas IV. Hegel’s Pragmatist Functionalist Idea V. The Mode of Presentation Condition VI. The Experience of Error VII. The Two Sides of Conceptual Content Are Representationally Related VIII. Conclusion

I. Sense Certainty Introduced II. Two Senses of “Immediacy” III. A Bad Argument IV. First Good Argument: Classification V. Second Good Argument: Anaphoric Recollection

I. The Lessons of Sense Certainty II. Determinateness and Exclusive Negation III. Formal Negation and Two Orders of Explanation IV. Properties and Objects V. Two Metaphysical Roles of Objects VI. Ten Kinds of Metaphysical Differences VII. From Perception to Understanding

I. Forces as Allegorical for Theoretical Entities II. Invidious Eddingtonian Theoretical Realism III. Holism and the “Play of Forces” IV. From Forces to Laws as Superfacts V. The “Inverted World” and Possible-World Semantics

7. Objective Idealism and Modal Expressivism

I. Explanation and the Expression of Implicit Laws II. Objective Idealism III. “Infinity” as Holism IV. Expressivism, Objective Idealism, and Normative Self-Consciousness

Part Two. Normative Pragmatics: Recognition and the Expressive Metaphysics of Agency

I. Introduction: Asymmetrical, Defective Structures of Recognition II. The Subordination-Obedience Model III. Identification IV. The Practical Conception of Pure Independence V. The Struggle VI. The Significance of Victory VII. The Master-Servant Relationship VIII. The Metaphysical Irony at the Heart of Mastery IX. From Subjects to Objects X. Recognition and Cognition XI. The Semantic Failures of Stoicism and Skepticism

12. Recollection, Representation, and Agency

Part Three. Recollecting the Ages of Spirit: From Irony to Trust

I. Epochs of Geist II. Immediate Sittlichkeit III. The Rise of Subjectivity IV. Alienation and Culture

14. Alienation and Language

I. Introduction: Modernity, Legitimation, and Language II. Actual and Pure Consciousness III. Recognition in Language IV. Authority and Responsibility in Language as a Model of Freedom V. Pure Consciousness: Alienation as a Disparity between Cognition and Recognition VI. Faith and Trust VII. Morality and Conscience

15. Edelmütigkeit and Niederträchtigkeit: The Kammerdiener

I. Two Meta-attitudes II. The Kammerdiener III. The Authority of Normative Attitudes and Statuses IV. Naturalism and Genealogy V. Four Meta-meta-attitudes VI. Looking Forward to Magnanimity

16. Confession and Forgiveness, Recollection and Trust

I. Niederträchtig Assessment II. Confession III. Forgiveness IV. Recollection V. The Conditions of Determinate Contentfulness VI. Trust and Magnanimous Agency VII. Hegel’s Recollective Project

Afterword: To the Best of My Recollection Notes Index