Hegel's Concept of Action [Paperback]

A book about the importance of Hegel's philosophy to contemporary theory of action.This book is an important gateway through which professional analytic philosophers and their students can come to understand the significance of Hegel's philosophy to contemporary theory of action. As such it will contribute to the ever-increasing erosion of the sterile barrier between the continental and analytic approaches to philosophy.Michael Quante has written the first book to focus on what Hegel has to say about such central concepts as action, person and will, and then to bring these views to bear on contemporary debates in analytic philosophy.This book is an important gateway through which professional analytic philosophers and their students can come to understand the significance of Hegel's philosophy to contemporary theory of action. As such it will contribute to the ever-increasing erosion of the sterile barrier between the continental and analytic approaches to philosophy.Michael Quante has written the first book to focus on what Hegel has to say about such central concepts as action, person and will, and then to bring these views to bear on contemporary debates in analytic philosophy.Michael Quante focuses on what Hegel has to say about such central concepts as action, person and will, and then brings these views to bear on contemporary debates in analytic philosophy. This book enables professional analytic philosophers and their students to understand the significance of Hegel's philosophy to contemporary theory of action. As such, it will contribute to the ever-increasing erosion of the barrier between the continental and analytic approaches to philosophy.Preface to the English edition; Abbreviations used in the text; Introduction; Part I. The Subjective Will: 1. Conceptual presuppositions: person and subject; 2. Intentionality: the form of subjective freedom; 3. Recapitulation; Part II. The Action: 4. The form of the action; 5. The content of the action; Part III. l“