In Defense of Reason After Hegel

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Why We Are So Wise: Hegelian Reflections on whether Reason Can Be Enhanced; 2. Self-Determination in Logic and Reality; 3. Hegel’s Overcoming of the Overcoming of Metaphysics; 4. On Contradiction: Hegel versus Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus, and Kant; 5. Overcoming Actuality: How Hegel Frees Us from the Prison of Modality; 6. Time and Reason; 7. Hegel and the Problem of Consciousness; 8. Hegel and the Origin of Language; 9. The Logic of Right; 10. A Dream Deferred: From the US Constitution to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; 11. World Spirit on the Campaign Trail in Georgia: Can the Philosophy of Right Be a Guide to Social Reform?; 12. The Classical Nude and the Limits of Sculpture; Bibliography; Index.