Hegel and the Spirit: Philosophy as Pneumatology
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- Published:
- Jan 24, 2010
- Copyright:
- 1992
- Pages:
- 248
- Size:
- 6 x 9 in.
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Hegel and the Spirit explores the meaning of Hegel’s grand philosophical category, the category of Geist, by way of what Alan Olson terms a pneumatological thesis. Hegel’s philosophy of spirit, according to Olson, is a speculative pneumatology that completes what Adolf von Harnack once called the 鈥渙rphan doctrine鈥 in Christian theology—the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Olson argues that Hegel’s development of philosophy as pneumatology originates out of a deep appreciation of Luther’s dialectical understanding of Spirit and that Hegel’s doctrine of Spirit is thus deeply interfused with the values of W眉rtemberg Pietism. Olson further maintains that Hegel’s Enzyklopdie is the post-Enlightenment philosophical equivalent of a Trinit盲tslehre and that his Rechtsphilosophie is an ecclesiology. Thus Hegel and the Spirit demonstrates the truth of Karl Barth’s observation that Hegel is the potential Aquinas of Protestantism. Exploring Hegel’s philosophy of spirit in historical, cultural, and personal religious context, the book identifies Hegel’s relationship with H枚lderlin and his response to H枚lderlin’s madness as key elements in the philosopher’s religious and philosophical development, especially with respect to the meaning of transcendence and dialectic.