Dr. Sebastian Stein

Anschrift: Philosophisches Seminar Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg Schulgasse 6 69117 Heidelberg Tel.: 06221/ 54 24 62 E-Mail: sebastian.stein@uni-heidelberg.de

Lehr- und Forschungsprofil

Meta-Philosophie (Neoaristotelismus, Empirismus, Idealismus, hermeneutischer Realismus), Nachkantischer Idealismus (Fichte, Hegel), Ethik (Kant, Utilitarismus und Aristoteles), politische Philosophie (Kant, Liberalismus, John Rawls und seine Kritiker, Konstruktivismus und Realismus)    

Publikationen

Monographs (2)

• Hegel’s concept of free will [80% completed]
• Metaphysics and Method: A contribution to contemporary metaphilosophy [60% completed]

Edited Volumes (5)

• (2021) Cambridge Critical Guide to Hegel’s Encyclopedia, S. Stein & J. Wretzel (eds), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• (2021) Hegel’s Encyclopedic System, S. Stein & J. Wretzel (eds.), London: Routledge.
• (2021) Hegel’s Phenomenologies: Contemporary approaches to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, I.Boldyrev & S. Stein (eds.), London: Routledge.
• (2020) Hegel and contemporary political philosophy: Beyond Kantian Constructivism, J. Gledhill & S. Stein (eds.), London: Routledge.
• (2017) Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System, T. Brooks & S. Stein (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals (8)

• (2022) The taming of supernatural freedom? On naturalist readings of Hegel’s post-Kantian idealism forthcoming in Idealistic Studies (ISSN 2153-8239), 2023.
• (2021) Truth and its appearance: A comment on Robert Brandom’s “A Spirit of Trust”, in Existenz (ISSN 1932-1066).
• (2019) Duty-bound happiness and determined freedom: Hegel and Aristotle on ethical life in The Hegel Bulletin, 41/1, pp. 61–82, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• (2017) Die Unbedingtheit der Philosophie: Hegel über Wahrheit und Wissen in Hegel: Une Pensée de L’Objectivité, Jean-Reaud Seba, Guillaume Lejeune (eds.), Paris: Éditions Kimé.
• (2016) Hegel’s monarch, the concept and the limits of syllogistic reasoning in The Hegel Bulletin, 38:1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• (2016) Hegel’s twofold critique of Empiricism: Cognition, Ontology and the Question of Universality, published in Revista Eletrônica Estudos Hegelianos/Online Journal of Hegelian Studies,v. 13, n. 22.
• (2014) Hegel and Kant on rational willing: The relevance of method in Hegel Bulletin, Volume 35, Special Issue 02, October, pp 273 – 291. Re-published in 2017 as part of a Hegel Bulletin virtual special issue on Kant and Hegel.
• (2014) Die Logik von Recht und Zwang in Hegels Rechtsphilosophie in Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

Peer-Reviewed Review Articles (3)

• (2019) Review article of Jean-François Kervégan (2018), The actual and the rational: Hegel and objective spirit, Chicago: Chicago University Press, for the European Journal of Philosophy, 2019; 1–5.
• (2017) Review article of Kuch, Hannes (2013) Herr und Knecht: Anerkennung und symbolische Macht im Anschluss an Hegel, Frankfurt am Main: Campus-Verlag, in Hegel Studien Band 50, Hamburg: Meiner.
• (2017) Review article of Folko Zander, Herrschaft und Knechtschaft: die Genese des Selbstbewusstseins in Hegels „Phänomenologie des Geistes“; Ein Kommentar, Paderborn: Fink, in Hegel Studien Band 50, Hamburg: Meiner.

Peer-Reviewed Articles in Collections (18)

• (2024) Die unbedingte Quelle der spontanen Subjektivität und ihres realen Objekts: Kants Noumenon und seine Rolle in der Erkenntnis, in Christian Martin (ed.), „Anschauung und Begriff in der klassischen deutschen Philosophie“, Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog Verlag, forthcoming.
• (2023) Philosophische Vernunft und wir: Begriffliche Wahrheit bei Fichte und Hegel, in Klaus Vieweg (ed.), „Das Beste von Hegel —  The Best of Hegel“, Berlin: Duncker & Humboldt, pp. 179-190.
• (2023) Nature’s system within the system: Hegel’s idealist philosophy of nature, in J. Schülein & L. Corti (eds.) “Life, Organisms and Cognition: Understanding Nature Between Classical German Philosophy And Current Debates” Berlin: Springer. (forthcoming)
• (2023) Nature and Its Limits: Hegel’s Idealist Critiques of Physicalism, Naturalism and Essentialism in Marina Bykova (ed.) “The Cambridge Critical Guide to Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature”, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• (2022) Self-thinking consciousness or absolute spirit: Hegel’s response to Fichte’s definition of philosophy, in L. Illetterati, G. Miolli (eds.), “The Relevance of Hegel’s Concept of Philosophy: From Classical German Philosophy to Contemporary Metaphilosophy”, London: Bloomsbury.
• (2021) Absolute Geist or self-loving god? Hegel and Spinoza on philosophy in S. Stein & J. Wretzel (eds.), “Cambridge Critical Guide to Hegel’s Encyclopedia”, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• (2021) Truth and appearance in Hegel’s Phenomenology: Brandom, Pippin and Houlgate on Geist and consciousness in I. Boldyrev, S. Stein (eds.) “Hegel’s Phenomenologies: Contemporary approaches to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit“, London: Routledge.
• (2021) Just aspirations and philosophical method: egalitarian critiques of Hegel’s concept of civil society, in E. Sembou (ed.), “Hegel's Political Philosophy: Themes and Interpretations”, Bern: Peter Lang.
• (2021) Hegel’s notion of philosophy: the concept-based unity of self-referential universality and differentiated particularity in “The Enduring Relevance of Hegel’s Encyclopedia“, S. Stein & J. Wretzel, London: Routledge.
• (2020) Choosing to do the right thing: Aristotle, Kant and Hegel on practical normativity and the realism-constructivism debate in J. Gledhill & S. Stein (eds.) “Hegel and contemporary political philosophy: Beyond Kantian Constructivism”, London: Routledge.
• (2019) Hegel in Shand, J.A. (ed.) A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy), London: Blackwell-Wiley.
• (2019) Eins und doch zwei: Fichtes dynamischer Vernunftbegriff zwischen Monismus und Dualismus in M. Rohstock & E. Plevrakis „Grundlegung des Absoluten“, Heidelberg: Winter Verlag.
• (2018) Die spekulative Einheit von Geist und Natur: Hegels absoluter Idealismus als Selbstwissen der ontologischen Vernunft in M. Forster & J. Korngiebel & K. Vieweg (eds.), „Idealismus und Romantik in Jena: Figuren und Konzepte zwischen 1794 und 1807“, Paderborn: Fink Verlag, 2018.
• (2018) The metaphysics of rational action: Kantian and Aristotelian themes in Hegel’s absolute idealism in Thompson, Michael (ed.) “Hegel's Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics”, London: Routledge.
• (2016) Freedom for free: Hegel on cognition, willing, free mind and the methodological cost of finite freedom in L. Ziglioli & S. Herrmann-Sinai (eds.) “Hegel’s Philosophical Psychology”, New York: Routledge.
• (2017) To know and not know right: Hegel on empirical cognition and philosophical knowledge in T. Brooks & S. Stein (eds.) “Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System”, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• (2014) Hegel’s account of the freedom of the will in „Jahrbuch der internationalen Hegel Gesellschaft, Kongressbeiträge 2010“, Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
• (2010) Political Normativity: Hegel and Reasonable Pluralism in ‘Geist? Erster Teil’ (Hegel-Jahrbuch 2010), A. Arndt, & P. Cruysberghs & A. Przylebski (eds.), Berlin, Akademie Verlag. 

Peer-Reviewed Book Reviews (3)

• (2012) Thom Brooks, Hegel's political philosophy: A systematic reading of the Philosophy of Right, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009 in The Hegel Bulletin, Vol. 65, 2012, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• (2009) Douglas Moggach (ed.), The New Hegelians, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press in The Hegel Bulletin, Vol. 59, 2009, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• (2012) Gary K. Browning Andrew Kilmister, Critical and post-critical political economy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 in The Hegel Bulletin , Vol. 65, 2012, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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