Hegel on Action

Edited by: Arto Laitinen , Constantine Sandis

Series: Philosophers in Depth

ARTO LAITINEN is a Research Fellow at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies,

Finland. His publications include Strong Evaluation without Moral Sources (2008),
Dimensions of Personhood (2007, edited with Heikki Ikäheimo), Recognition and
Social Ontology (edited with Heikki Ikäheimo, 2010), and a number of articles on
mutual recognition. His research interests are the nature of normativity, human
agency and social philosophy.

CONSTANTINE SANDIS is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes

Hardback University, and NYU in London, UK. He is the author of The Things We Do and Why
13 Oct 2010 £60.00 We Do Them (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming) and editor of New Essays on the
9780230229082 Explanation of Action (Palgrave Macmillan 2009) as well as A Companion to the
Philosophy of Action (with Timothy O' Connor, 2010).

This volume focuses on Hegel's philosophy of action in connection to current

concerns. Including key papers by Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John
McDowell, as well as eleven especially commissioned contributions by leading
scholars in the field, it aims to readdress the dialogue between Hegel and
contemporary philosophy of action. Topics include: the nature of action, reasons and
causes; explanation and justification of action; social and narrative aspects of agency;
the inner and the outer; the relation between intention, planning, and purposeful
behaviour; freedom and responsibility; and self-actualisation. This book will appeal
alike to Hegel scholars and philosophers of action.

List of Contributors:

Katerina Deligiorgi, Stephen Houlgate, Dudley Knowles, Arto Laitinen, Alasdair

MacIntyre, John Mcdowell, Francesca Menegoni, Dean Moyar, Terry Pinkard, Robert
B. Pippin, Michael Quante, Constantine Sandis, Hans-Christoph Schmidt Am Busch,
Allen Speight, Charles Taylor, Allen W. Wood
 Contents:

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

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

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