Despite the emphasis on ‘concept’ and ‘idea’, Hegel never fails to utilize the term ‘reality’ as well throughout his work. This is particularly noteworthy, as Hegel does not discuss this term in a separate chapter, unlike other semantically related concepts such as ‘being’, ‘existence’, ‘actuality’, ‘objectivity’, and of course ‘concept’ and ‘idea’. The contributions of this volume track Hegel’s numerous but scattered mentions of reality and reconstruct the overlooked yet cohesive Hegelian philosophy of reality, overall shedding new light on the realistic dimension of Hegel’s entire ‘idealistic’ philosophy from systematic, interpretive, and historical perspectives.
