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Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza

A Study in German Idealism, 1801–1831

Monograph · Cambridge University Press · 2021 · xii–248 pp.

In an earlier study (Cambridge 2005) I documented the discussion regarding the nature of humankind that preoccupied the German intelligentsia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Jacobi intervened in the discussion bringing Spinoza to the scene, with results that affected the reception of Kant’s Critique of Reason. In the present study I pursue the same theme, but in the completely different conceptual and social context of early Romanticism. Humankind’s vocation assumes rather the form of God’s vocation. I explore this change with reference to the three canonical post-Kantians, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, with Jacobi occasionally interloping, all in their post-1800 phase, taking the date of Hegel’s death (1831) as my occasionally moving end-post. How to save subjectivity in the face of Spinoza’s monism was still the challenge. I argue that Hegel met this challenge, not by disproving monism, which was also the assumption behind classical metaphysics, but by simply rendering it moot. In this, Hegel was much closer in spirit to Kant and Fichte than to Schelling. I consider this work a philosophical argument in historical medium.

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The Science of Logic

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Translation, with notes and introductory study · Cambridge University Press · 2010 · lxxiv–790 pp.

A complete translation of Hegel’s Wissenschaft der Logik — the 'Greater Logic' — with translator’s notes and an introductory study. Corrections to the translation are collected in the Notes on the Translation.

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Freedom and Religion in Kant and His Immediate Successors

The Vocation of Humankind, 1774–1800

Monograph · Cambridge University Press · 2005 · xvi–376 pp.

A study of the debate over the vocation of humankind that preoccupied the German intelligentsia in the second half of the eighteenth century, and of how Jacobi’s introduction of Spinoza into that debate shaped the reception of Kant’s critical philosophy.

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Between Kant and Hegel

Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism

Translation with critical notes and introductory studies, with H. S. Harris; new revised edition edited by George di Giovanni · Hackett · 2000 · xvi–404 pp.

Originally published SUNY Press, 1985 (pp. xiv–400), including G. di Giovanni, 'The Facts of Consciousness', pp. 3–53.

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Reinhold and the Enlightenment

Editor · Springer · Studies in German Idealism · 2009 · xiii–337 pp.

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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: The Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel ‘Allwill’

Translation with critical notes and bibliography · McGill-Queen’s University Press · 1994 · 683 pp.

Includes the monograph G. di Giovanni, The Unfinished Philosophy of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, pp. 1–167. Paperback edition with added preface, 2009.

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Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, and Other Writings

Immanuel Kant

Translation, with an introduction by Robert M. Adams · Cambridge University Press · 1998

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Religion and Rational Theology

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, vol. VI

Translated and edited with Allen W. Wood · Cambridge University Press · 1996 · xxiv–518 pp.

Includes di Giovanni’s translation, with introduction, of Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft and ‘Über das Mißlingen aller philosophischen Versuche in der Theodicee’. Paperback edition 2001.

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Essays on Hegel’s Logic

Editor · SUNY Press · 1990 · 218 pp.
Hegel’s Jena Logic and Metaphysics (1804–05)

Translation edited with J. Burbidge, introduction by H. S. Harris · McGill-Queen’s University Press · 1986 · 200 pp.
Revue internationale de philosophie, XL.1

Invited guest editor · 1995

An issue dedicated to the first ten years of post-Kantian idealism.

Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza

The Science of Logic

Freedom and Religion in Kant and His Immediate Successors

Between Kant and Hegel

Reinhold and the Enlightenment

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: The Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel ‘Allwill’

Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, and Other Writings

Religion and Rational Theology

Essays on Hegel’s Logic

Hegel’s Jena Logic and Metaphysics (1804–05)

Revue internationale de philosophie, XL.1