Acknowledgment 1 Introduction--The Divide and Brandom''s Interpretation of Hegel 2 Brandom''s Conceptual Realism and Two Interpretations of Hegel 1 From Hegel to Analytic Philosophy to Pragmatic Contextualism 1.1 The Creation Myth of Analytic Philosophy--The Rejection of Hegel 1.2 The Problem of the External World in Analytic Philosophy 1.3 The Neo-Pragmatic Turn and Sellars'' Linguistic Rationalism 1.4 Rorty''s Skepticism and Brandom 1.5 Conclusions on the Birth of Analytic Philosophy from the Spirit of Hegel 2 Brandom''s Pragmatic Semantics and Its Relation to Realism 2.1 Mind-External Realism and Inferentialism 2.2 Procedural Realism and Assertion 2.

3 Proof of Objectivity--Towards Mind-External Reality 3 Brandom and History 4 Brandom''s A Spirit of Trust and Conceptual Realism 4.1 Brandom''s Conceptual Realism Applied to Hegel 4.1.1 Conceptual Realism 4.1.2 Brandom''s Hylomorphism and ''Implausible'' Idealism 4.1.3 Brandom''s Standard of Philosophy--Experiencing Error and Experiencing Reality 4.

2 The Normative Side 4.3 The Historical Progression--The Advent of a Better Society 3 Transition: Habermas'' Contextualism, Brandom''s Realism and Hegel''s Historicity 1 Differences between Habermas'' and Brandom''s Account 1.1 Pragmatics and Semantics--Two Incompatible Approaches in Brandom? 1.2 Anaphora as an Anchor in Reality 1.3 Brandom''s Leveling of Facts and Norms 2 Habermas and Hegel 2.1 Hegel''s Denial of Mentalism 2.2 Habermas'' Critique of Hegel''s Concept of Self-consciousness 4 Hegel''s Historical Relativism 1 Logic and History 1.1 The Historicity of the Science of Logic 1.

2 Hegel and the Concept of History 2 Hegel''s Phenomenology 2.1 Ordinary Phenomenologies in Relation to Essentialism and Foundationalism 2.2 Kant''s Foundationalism and the Hegelian Rejection 2.3 Hegel''s Account of Self-consciousness and His Epistemology 3 Absolute Knowing in Relation to History and Time 3.1 Hegel as a Thinker of World History and Absolute Knowing 3.2 The Formal Absolute 4 The Achievement of Absolute Knowing 4.1 The Exposition of the Problem of Spirit 4.2 The Unification of Consciousness with Self-consciousness 4.

3 The Unification of Consciousness with Self-consciousness through the Concept 4.4 Absolute Knowing and Human History 4.5 The Contradiction of Time and a Science of Experience 4.6 Externalizations of Spirit--Time and History 4.6.1 Definition of Time 4.6.2 Definition of Nature and History 4.

6.3 Hegel''s Solution of Absolute Knowing 5 Conclusion on Brandom''s Conceptual Realism and Hegel''s Historicity Bibliography Index.