Hegel: Hovering Over the Corpse of Faith and Reason
This manuscript provides a revisionist reading of Hegel's 1802 essay, Faith and Knowledge, in which he critiques the various reconciliations of faith and reason proposed by his immediate predecessors and contemporary faith philosophers - namely, Kant, Jacobi, Schleiermacher and Fichte. Hegel's agonistic interpretation of these "reflective philosophers of subjectivity," who he reads as settling for a form of reason that is "no longer worthy of the name" and a version of faith that "no longer s