Hegel on Action [Hardcover]

This unique collection focuses on Hegel's Philosophy of Action as it relates to current concerns. Including key papers by Taylor, MacIntyre, and McDowell as well as eleven especially commissioned contributions, it aims to readdress the dialogue between Hegel and contemporary philosophy of action.Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: Hegel and Contemporary Philosophy of Action; A.Laitinen & C.Sandis Hegel and the Philosophy of Action; C.Taylor Hegel on Actions, Reasons, and Causes; D.Knowles Hegel's Social Theory of Agency: The 'Inner-Outer' Problem; R.B.Pippin Towards a Reading of Hegel on Action in the 'Reason' Chapter of the Phenomenology ; J.McDowell Doing without Agency: Hegel's Social Theory of Action; K.Deligiorgi Hegel on Responsibility for Actions and Consequences; A.W.Wood Freedom and the Lifeworld; T.Pinkard Action, Right, and Morality in Hegel's Philosophy of Right ; S.Houlgate Hegel on Faces and Skulls; A.MacIntyre What Does it Mean 'to Make Oneself an Object'? In Defense of a Key Notion of Hegel's Theory of Action; H-C.Schmidt am Busch Hegel's Planning Theory of Agency; M.Quante Hegel, Narrative and Agency; A.Speight Action Between Conviction and Recognition in Hegel's Critique of the Moral Worldviews; F.Menegoni Hegel and Agent-Relative Reasons; D.Moyar Bibliography Index

'They have produced an interesting, rich, and challenging volume.' - Robert R. Williams, University of Illinois-Chicago

KATERINA DELIGIORGI is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex, UKSTEPHEN HOULGATE is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UKDUDLEY KNOWLES is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UKALASDAIR MACINTYRE is Permanent Senior Research Fellow at Notre Dame University, USAJOHN MCDOWELL is Distinguished University Professor at Pittsburgh, USAFRANCESCA MENEGONI is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Padua, ItalyDEAN MOYAR is Associate Professor in the Deparló%