A spirit of trust: a reading of Hegel's Phenomenology

Introduction : A pragmatist semantic reading of Hegel's Phenomenology

Part One: Semantics and epistemology : knowing and representing the objective world. Conceptual realism and the semantic possibility of knowledge

Representation and the experience of error : a functionalist approach to the distinction between appearance and reality

Following the path of despair to a bacchanalian revel: the emergence of the second, true, object

Immediacy, generality, and recollection : first lessons on the structure of epistemic authority

Understanding the object / property structure in terms of negation: an introduction to Hegelian logic and metaphysics in the perception chapter

"Force" and understanding-from object to concept: the ontological status of theoretical entities and the laws that implicitly define them

Objective idealism and modal expressivism

Part Two: Normative pragmatics : recognition and the expressive metaphysics of agency. The structure of desire and recognition : self-consciousness and self-constitution

The fine structure of autonomy and recognition: the institution of normative statuses by normative attitudes

Allegories of mastery: the pragmatic and semantic basis of the metaphysical incoherence of authority without responsibility

Hegel's expressive metaphysics of agency: the determination, identity, and development of what is done

Recollection, representation, and agency

Part Three. Recollecting the ages of spirit : from irony to trust : The history of normative structures: on beyond immediate Sittlichkeit

Alienation and language

Edelmutigkeit and Niedertrachtigkeit: the Kammerdiener

Confession and forgiveness, recollection and trust

Conclusion: Semantics with an edifying intent : recognition and recollection on the way to the age of trust.