A Spirit of Trust:
A Semantic Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology
Philosophy 2180—Fall 2013
Tuesdays 1:00-4:00, CL 1001
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Bob Brandom
- Week One (8/27/2013): Bob’s Introduction tothe Phenomenology
Phenomenology:
None
Brandom:
“Animating Ideas of Idealism: A Semantic Sonata in Kant and Hegel”
(= 2007 Woodbridge Lectures)
“Sketch of a Program for a Critical Reading of Hegel”
- Week Two (9/3/2013): Hegel’s Introduction to the Phenomenology
Phenomenology:
Read the Introductionto the Phenomenology in the Kenley Dove translation.
Brandom:
“Conceptual Realism and the Semantic Possibility of Knowledge”
“Representation and the Experience of Error”
“Following the Path of Despair to a Bacchanalian Revel”
(= 2011 Munich Lectures)
- Week Three (9/10/2013): Immediacy, Authority, and Repeatability
Phenomenology:
Consciousness I: Sense Certainty: Or the ‘This’ and ‘Meaning’
Brandom:
“Mediating the Immediate: Sense Certainty”
- Week Four (9/17/2013): Determinate Sense Universals and Negation
Phenomenology:
Consciousness II: Perception: Or the Thing and Deception
Brandom:
“Mediating the Immediate: Perception”
- Week Five (9/24/2013): Theoretical Objects and Holism
Phenomenology:
Consciousness III: Force and Understanding: Appearance and the Supersensible World
Brandom:
“Mediating the Immediate: Force and Understanding”
“Holism and Idealism in Hegel’s Phenomenology”
- Week Six (10/1/2013): From the Natural to the Normative by Recognition
Phenomenology:
Self-Consciousness IV A: Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness:
Lordship and Bondage
Brandom:
“The Structure of Desire and Recognition”
- Week Seven (10/8/2013): Asymmetries of Authority and Responsibility
Phenomenology:
Self-Consciousness IV B: Freedom of Self-Consciousness: Stoicism, Skepticism,
and the Unhappy Consciousness
Brandom:
“Stoicism, Skepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness”
No Class on 10/15.
(Fall Break: Monday classes meet Tuesday, Tuesday classes do not meet this week.)
- Week Eight (10/22/2013): “Reason is purposive agency.”
Phenomenology:
Reason VA (quickly) and VB (carefully).
Brandom:
“Hegel’s Expressive Metaphysics of Agency” Sections I-VI
- Week Nine (10/29/2013): The Structure of Agency
Phenomenology:
Reason VC: Individuality which takes itself to be real in and for itself.
Brandom:
“Hegel’s Expressive Metaphysics of Agency” Sections VII-XI
- Week Ten (11/5/2013): Immediate Sittlichkeit
Phenomenology:
Spirit VIA: The true spirit: The ethical order
Brandom:
“From Irony to Trust: Modernity and Beyond” Sections I-VII
- Week Eleven (11/12/2013): Alienation
Phenomenology:
Spirit VIB: Self-alienated Spirit: Culture
Brandom:
“From Irony to Trust: Modernity and Beyond” Sections VIII-XI
- Week Twelve (11/19/2013): Confession, Forgiveness, and Trust
Phenomenology:
Spirit VIC: Spirit that is certain of itself. Morality
Brandom:
“From Irony to Trust: Modernity and Beyond” Sections XII-XIII
- Week Thirteen (12/3/2013): Brackets and Conclusion
Phenomenology:
VIII: Absolute Knowing
and Preface