An Introduction to Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: The Issue of Religious Content in the Enlightenment and Romanticism [Hardcover]

This work gives a basic introduction to Hegel's religious thinking by seeing it against the backdrop of the main religious trends in his own day that he responded to.An Introduction to Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religionexamines Hegel's religious thinking by seeing it against the backdrop of the main religious trends in his own day, specifically the Enlightenment and Romanticism. A basic introduction to Hegel's lectures, it provides an account of the criticism of religion by key Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire, Lessing, Hume, and Kant. This is followed by an analysis of how the Romantic thinkers, such as Rousseau, Jacobi and Schleiermacher, responded to these challenges. For Hegel, the views of these thinkers from both the Enlightenment and Romanticism tended to empty religion of its content. The goal that he sets for his own philosophy of religion is to restore this lost content. The book provides a detailed account of Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion and argues that the basic ideas of the Enlightenment and Romanticism are still present today, and remain an important issue for both academics and non-academics, regardless of their religious orientation.Introduction1. The Enlightenment's Criticism of Religion: Theology2. The Enlightenment's Criticism of Religion: Philosophy3. Romanticism: The Retreat to Subjectivity4. Hegel's Approach and Method5. Forerunners of the Christian Conception of the Divine: Judaism and Greco-Roman Polytheism6. Hegel's Philosophical Interpretation of Christianity7. The Omission of Islam8. The Reception of Hegel's Philosophy of Religion9. The Relevance of Hegel's Philosophy of Religion TodayJon Stewart,Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, SlovakiaJon Stewart is a well-known scholar in the field of Continental philosophy. He has won awards from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Collegium Budapest, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,l3¡