A Spirit of Trust:

A Semantic Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology

Bob Brandom

Introduction: Hegelian Themes

Part One:

Knowing and Representing:

Reading (between the lines of) Hegel’s Introduction to the Phenomenology

Chapter One: Conceptual Realism and the Semantic Possibility of Knowledge

Chapter Two: Representation and the Experience of Error:

A Functionalist Approach to the Distinction between Appearance and Reality

Chapter Three: Following the Path of Despair to a Bacchanalian Revel:

The Emergence of the Second, True, Object

Part Two:

Mediating the Immediate:

Consciousness and the Inferential Articulation of Determinate Empirical Content

Chapter Four: Immediacy, Generality, and Recollection:

First Lessons on the Structure of Epistemic Authority

Chapter Five: Determinateness of Sense Universals

and the Aristotelian Structure of Objects and Properties

Chapter Six: Theoretical Objects and the Supersensible World

Part Three:

Self-Consciousness and Recognition

Chapter Seven: The Structure of Desire and Recognition:

Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution

Chapter Eight: The Freedom of Self-Consciousness

Stoicism, Scepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness

Part Four:

Hegel’s Expressive Metaphysics of Agency

Chapter Nine: Determination, Identity, and Development of What is Done

Chapter Ten: Recollection, Representation, and Agency

Part Five:

From Irony to Trust:

The Spirit Chapter of Hegel’s Phenomenology
Chapter Eleven: The History of Normative Structures: From Traditional to Modern

Chapter Twelve: Language and Recognition

Chapter Thirteen: Edelmütigkeit and Niederträchtigkeit: The Kammerdiener

Chapter Fourteen: Confession and Forgiveness

Chapter Fifteen: Trust: Forgiveness as Recollection,

Magnanimity as the Final Form of Recognition

Part Six:

Conclusion

Chapter Sixteen: The Preface and an Outline of a Critical Reading

Chapter Seventeen: On the Science of Logic