Delimitant et critiquant la logique de l'argument developpe par Hegel dans la «Phenomenologie de l'esprit» comme explication philosophique des evenements historiques de la Revolution francaise, l'A. se propose de contextualiser et d'illustrer la conception hegelienne de la liberte et de la terreur, qui s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un idealisme sublime et d'une histoire conceptuelle de la modernite. Examinant les figures philosophiques de l'incarnation de l'esprit concret de la Revolution que sont Rousseau et Sieyes, l'A. critique l'argument hegelien qui denonce les origines ideologiques de la Revolution et de l'Assemblee nationale comme heritiers de la philosophie des Lumieres

Contextualizing Hegel's Phenomenology of the French Revolution and the Terror

Prologue Introduction 1. Negative association 2. 'Carthage must be saved' 3. Enemies at the gates: Machiavelli's return to the beginnings of cities 4. The enemy of my enemy is my friend: negative association and reason of state 5. Survival through fear: Hobbes's problem and solution 6. Hobbism 7. The politics of enmity Epilogue.

Fear of Enemies and Collective Action

In 1908, the Third International Congress of Philosophy convened in Heidelberg, Germany. According to the editors of Pragmatism and Education, this event witnessed a rejection of pragmatic ideas in Germany which would hold throughout most of the twentieth Century. In the wake of the American revival of pragmatism, the intellectual landscape in Germany has changed, enough so to invite a reconsideration of pragmatism’s philosophical coherence and relevance for contemporary German educational thinking. In 2003, the editors organized a conference in Zurich to do just that. The resulting book consists of eleven papers along with the editors’ Introduction. The papers range from the historical to the philosophical, and cover a variety of pragmatists, from Dewey, James and Mead, to Jane Addams and Mary Parker Follett. Each essay considers both the philosophical ideas of its subject and the relation of those ideas to German pedagogical thought in the twentieth century. Overall, although the papers (admittedly) do not constitute a comprehensive treatment of the issues, they represent an interesting and valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion of pragmatism and its relevance to the philosophy of education, inside Germany or out. In the first chapter, James A. Good challenges the traditional view that Dewey made a complete break from Hegelianism by 1903. Much of the impetus for such a reading, Good argues, lies in an apparent need to dissociate Dewey from the “philosopher of the Prussian state” (19). On the contrary, Good argues, we ought to recognize that Dewey’s early Hegelianism was influenced by the St. Louis Hegelians, who opposed that interpretation of Hegel (14). Dewey’s early admissions of his debt to Hegel implicate the influence of the St. Louis Hegelians on this count. Second, Book Review

Pragmatism and Education

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Politics, history, critique: An interpretation of Kant's political philosophy in light of his critical-regulative method.

From 1882 to 1903, Dewey explicitly espoused a Hegelian philosophy. Until recently, scholars agreed that he broke from Hegel no later than 1903, but never adequately accounted for what he called the "permanent deposit" that Hegel left in his mature thought. I argue that Dewey never made a clean break from Hegel. Instead, he drew on the work of the St. Louis Hegelians to fashion a non-metaphysical reading of Hegel, similar to that championed by Klaus Hartmann and other Hegel scholars since the 1970s. This reading of Hegel is remarkably consistent with Dewey's mature philosophy. Although Dewey abruptly repudiated Hegel during World War I, I contend this reflected the exigencies of war rather than philosophical concerns.

John Dewey's "Permanent Hegelian Deposit" and the Exigencies of War

Preface Part I: Introduction Part II. J.-J. Rousseau: The Land of Chimeras and the Land Prejudices: 1. History, anti-history and the moral ego 2. Images of integration Part III. Immanuel Kant: The Rationalization of the Chimera: 1. Introduction: the German political consciousness 2. Morality, knowledge and historical vision 3. Humanity, time and freedom 4. The ambivalence of progress 5. Problems of politics 6. The teleology of practical reason Part IV. J.G. Fichte: The Chimera Dogmatized: 1. Fichte: introduction and tendencies 2. Metaphysics and consciousness 3. Legality and morality 4. History as logic: the logic of history 5. Cosmic nationalism 6. Education and the future community Part V. G.W.F. Hegel: The Chimera Preserved: 1. Hegel denies the potency of the future 2. A political context Part VI: Epilogue: The Future Unredeemed Bibliography Index.

George Armstrong Kelly

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Idealism, Politics and History: Sources of Hegelian Thought