La Psicologia di Hegel come scienza filosofica. Ricerche e contributi recenti

Abstract

Hegel’s Psychology, as Philosophical Science, is one of the most overlooked parts of his work. Some recent events make a significant contribution to the advancement of studies in this field. These include the publication of the edited volume: La Psicologia di Hegel. Un commentario (IISF Press, 2023) and the International Workshop devoted to this topic, which was held at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (10-11 June 2024). These contributions not only provide a wide-ranging, comprehensive, and rigorous guide to the study of Hegel’s text of Psychology presented within the Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences (third edition, 1830), they also constitute an in-depth critical discussion of the main theoretical problems that fuelled its writing and that cut across the whole of classical German philosophy, starting with the general question: how is to conceive the objectivity of forms of knowledge? Along with this question, a broad spectrum of issues is considered and discussed, including: the relationship between the unconscious sedimentation of images and the recognition of objects; the status of established representations and habits in linguistic usages and their semantic implications; the logical articulation of thought in judicial and more complex forms of mediation; practical reasoning and the development of a rational understanding of freedom.