Essays in Hegelian Dialectic

Quentin Lauer

Jan 1977 · Fordham Univ Press

About this ebook

This volume, with an updated Introduction, includes Professor Lauer's shorter works depicting how Hegel approached various philosophical issues. This book explores how Hegel constantly worked to overcome the rationalist intellectualism in a healthy regard for experience, to combat romantic intuitionism by focusing on a rational standard to objectivity, to avoid an empirical interpretation of experience through including spirituality of man. This book is a supporting follow-up to Professor Lauer's previous two major Hegelian publications.

About the author

Quentin Lauer, S. J. was a Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University from 1954 to 1990. He was an American Jesuit priest and a philosopher. He was president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association from 1985-1986, and a President of the Hegel Society of America. He was also a major influence in the introduction of Hegel's thought in the United States. His publications include A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1977), The Triumph of Subjectivity (1958) and Edmund Husserl: Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy (1965).