Hegel’s Philosophy of History
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831) on history. Hegel, one of the most influential of the modern philosophers, described history as the progress in the consciousness of freedom, asking whether we enjoy more freedom now than those who came before us. To explore this, he looked into the past to identify periods when freedom was moving from the one to the few to the all, arguing that once we understand the true nature of freedom we reach an endpoint in understanding. That end of history, as it’s known, describes an understanding of freedom so far progressed, so profound, that it cannot be extended or deepened even if it can be lost.
Guests
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Sally Sedgwick No other episodes
Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Boston University - Robert Stern
2 episodes
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield -
Stephen Houlgate No other episodes
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick
Reading list
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Hegel, the End of History, and the Future
Eric Michael Dale (Cambridge University Press, 2014) Google Books → -
The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
Michael N. Forster and Kristin Gjesdal (eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2015) Google Books → -
The Philosophy of History
G. W. F. Hegel (trans. J. Sibree) (Dover, 1956) Google Books → -
Lectures on the Philosophy of World History: Introduction, Reason in History
G. W. F. Hegel (ed. Johannes Hoffmeister) (Cambridge University Press, 1975) Google Books → -
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
G. W. F. Hegel (trans. H. B. Nisbet) (Cambridge University Press, 1991) Google Books → -
Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, volume 1: Manuscripts of the Introduction and the Lectures of 1822-3
G. W. F. Hegel (ed. and trans. Robert F. Brown and Peter C. Hodgson) (Oxford University Press, 2011) Google Books → -
Freiheit: Stuttgarter Hegel-Kongress 2011
Gunnar Hindrichs and Axel Honneth (eds.) (Klostermann, 2011) Google Books → -
Shapes of Freedom: Hegel's Philosophy of World History in Theological Perspective
Peter C. Hodgson (Oxford University Press, 2012) Google Books → -
Hegel: Freedom, Truth, and History
Stephen Houlgate (Blackwell, 2005) Google Books → -
A Companion to Hegel
Stephen Houlgate and Michael Baur (eds.) (John Wiley & Sons, 2011) Google Books → -
Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of History
Jean Hyppolite (trans. Bond Harris and Jacqueline Bouchard Spurlock) (University Press of Florida, 1996) Google Books → -
Religion, Modernity, and Politics in Hegel
Thomas A. Lewis (Oxford University Press, 2011) Google Books → -
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hegel on History
Joe McCarney (Routledge, 2000) Google Books → -
Memory, History, Justice in Hegel
Angelica Nuzzo (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) Google Books → -
Hegel on Reason and History
George Dennis O'Brien (Chicago University Press, 1975) Google Books → -
Does History Make Sense? Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice
Terry Pinkard (Harvard University Press, 2017) Google Books → -
Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit
Sally Sedgwick (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) Google Books → -
Hegel's Philosophy of History: Theological, Humanistic, and Scientific Elements
Rudolf J. Siebert (University Press of America, 1979) Google Books → -
Exorcising Hegel's Ghost: Africa's Challenge to Philosophy
Olufemi Taiwo (African Studies Quarterly, 1, 1998) -
Hegel's Philosophy of History
Burleigh Taylor Wilkins (Cornell University Press, 1974) Google Books →
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