Preface Acknowledgements PART 1 On the Fundament of Hegel''s Philosophy 1 Hegel''s Adventures in Wonderland, or the Beginning of Philosophy 1 With What Must the Science Begin? 2 Mediation or Immediacy 3 The Beginning of Practical Philosophy 4 Conclusion2 Hegel''s Sicilian Defence: Beyond Realism and Constructivism 1 The Logic of Essence 2 Immanent Negativity 3 Conclusion 3 The "Reversal of Consciousness Itself": Along the Path of the Phenomenology of Spirit 1 Reversals 2 Conclusion4 Pyrrho and the Wisdom of the Animals: Hegel on Scepticism 1 Pyrrhonism - Freedom of Character and Freedom of Thought 2 Happy and Unhappy Consciousness 3 The Unity of the Theoretical and Practical Idea 4 Ataraxia and Conscience PART 2 Hegel''s Practical Philosophy as a Philosophy of Freedom 5 Hegel''s Theory of Free Will 1 The Foundational Structure of the Will - §§5-7 2 Conclusion6 Inter-Personality and Wrong 1 The Concept of the Person 2 Personality and Inter-Personality - Recognition of the Person and Legal Capacity 3 Wrong and the Theory of ''Second Coercion'' 4 The Logically Grounded Structure in Judgment7 Care and Forethought: The Idea of Sustainability in Hegel''s Practical Philosophy 1 Property 2 Property and the ''Formation'' of the Natural 3 The Appropriation of Elemental Things 4 ''Forethought Which Looks to, and Secures, the Future'' 5 Natural Sustainability - the Forest as Paradigm8 Hegel''s Philosophical Theory of Action 1 Crime and Punishment - the Eumenides and Hegel''s Grounding of Punishment in the Theory of Action 2 Orestes and Oedipus - Heroic Self-Consciousness and Modernity9 Beyond Wall Street: Hegel as Founder of the Concept of a Welfare State 1 Civil Society as Modern Community of Market, Education and Solidarity 2 All-round Dependence in the ''Community of Need and Understanding'' 3 Political Economy and the Regulated Market 4 Regulation and Social Organization 5 Oversight and External Regulation 6 Social Care and Forethought - Foundations of Hegel''s Conception of a Social State10 The State and Its Logical Foundations 1 The State as a Whole Consisting of Three Syllogisms 2 The State as a Triad of Syllogisms 3 The Inner Law of the State or Domestic Right - the Second System of Three Syllogisms 4 A New Conception of the Separation and Interdependence of State Powers 5 The Constitution as a System of Three Syllogisms - a Reformulation of the Philosophy of Right 6 The State as a System of Three Syllogisms - against the Letter of the Philosophy of Right 7 The Universal, Law-Making Power - the Syllogism of Necessity (P-U-I) 8 The Categorical Syllogism 9 The Hypothetical Syllogism 10 The Disjunctive Syllogism11 The Right of Resistance 1 Considerations on the Right of Necessity 2 The Concept of Second Coercion 3 The Stages of the Inversive Right of Resistance 4 Conclusion: State of Exception and Second Coercion Part 3 Hegel on Art and Religion 12 Hegel''s Conception of the Imagination 1 Imagination and Mind 2 From Intuition to Representation 3 Representation13 The World Turned Upside Down 1 Reversals as Fantasy Castlings 2 Narrating Lives and Journeys ''Downhill'' 3 Free hystera protera : Scepticism - Music - Carnival - Politics 4 Closing Remarks, or: Endgame14 On Hegel''s Humour 1 Negativity and Humour 2 The Victory of Subjectivity15 Religion and Absolute Knowing 1 Basic Determinations of the Transition 2 Core Determinations of the Turning Point of the Transition, the Final Return out of the Realm of Representation 3 Freedom and Comprehensive Thought16 The East and Buddhism from Hegel''s Perspective 1 The First ''Translation'': That of Antiquity 2 The Second ''Translation'': Modernity 3 Religion and Philosophy - Imagination and Concept 4 Buddhism as a Religion of Silent Being-in-itself 5 Freedom from Oneself and the Beautiful Soul 6 The East and Modern Poetry 7 Brief Resumé Bibliography.