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See below for references to published works. Visit xavier.academia.edu/TimothyBrownlee for pre-prints when available.
See below for references to published works. Visit xavier.academia.edu/TimothyBrownlee for pre-prints when available.
Monograph
Monograph
Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is famed for its account of the problem of recognition. Yet while readers agree about the importance of its influential accounts of the struggle to the death and the master/slave relation in developing that problem, there is no consensus regarding what sorts of relations among subjects would count as successful forms of recognition. Timothy Brownlee articulates the essential connections between Hegel's concepts of recognition and the self, and presents a novel interpretation of the Phenomenology that traces the emergence of actual relations of reciprocal recognition through the work as a whole. He focuses on the distinctive social constitution conception of the self that Hegel develops in his account of 'spirit,' and demonstrates that the primary significance of recognition lies in its contribution to self-knowledge. His book will be valuable for scholars and students interested in Hegel, German Idealism, and philosophical conceptions of recognition.
Reviewed in: Philosophical Quarterly | British Journal for the History of Philosophy | Idealistic Studies |
Articles
Articles
"Hegel on the Need for a Philosophy of Art." The Necessity of Freedom in Hegel's Turn Between Logic and History. Ed. Emilia Angelova. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2026. 200-232.
"Publicity and Ideology: The Limits of Critique in Hegel's Social Theory." Owl of Minerva 56:1/2 (2025): 179-197.
“Conscience, conviction, and moral autonomy in Fichte’s ethics.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30:4 (2022): 626-645.
“Bildung and the Novel in Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics,” Hegel’s Political Aesthetics. Ed. Stefan Bird-Pollan and Vladimir Marchenkov. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 52-71.
“Two Models of Conscience and the Liberty of Conscience in Hegel’s Practical Philosophy.” Symposium 21:1 (Spring 2017): 38-55.
“The Sociality of Conscience and Rawls’s Liberalism.” Politics, Religion, and Political Theology. Ed. C. Allen Speight and Michael Zank. Dordrecht: Springer, 2017. 75-91.
“Ethicality and the Movement of Recognition in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.” International Philosophical Quarterly 56:2 (June 2016): 187-201.
“Alienation and Recognition in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.” Philosophical Forum 46:4 (Winter 2015): 377-396.
“Hegel’s Moral Concept of Evil.” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 52:1 (March 2013): 81-108.
“Hegel’s Defense of Toleration,” Hegel on Religion and Politics, ed. Angelica Nuzzo. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2013. 79-98.
“Conscience and Religion in Hegel’s Later Political Philosophy,” Owl of Minerva 43:1-2 (2011-2012): 41-72.
Reviews and Other Work
Reviews and Other Work
Reviews
Reviews
Hegel’s Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System, Thom Brooks and Sebastian Stein, eds. Notre Dame Philosophical Review (December 21, 2017): https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/hegels-political-philosophy-on-the-normative-significance-of-method-and-system/.
Infinite Phenomenology: The Lessons of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Experience, John Russon, Symposium (June 24, 2016): http://www.c-scp.org/2016/06/24/john-russon-infinite-phenomenology.html
Adorno’s Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly, Fabian Freyenhagen. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 54, 3 (September 2015): 583-585.
Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy, Andrew Bowie. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 54, 2 (June 2015): 387-389.
Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline, Part I: Science of Logic, G. W. F. Hegel; Klaus Brinkmann and Daniel O. Dahlstrom (ed. and trans.). Review of Metaphysics LXV, 2 (December 2011): 423-425.
The Science of Logic, G. W. F. Hegel; George di Giovanni (ed. and trans.). Notre Dame Philosophical Review (June 5, 2011): http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24722-the-science-of-logic/
Spirit, the Family, and the Unconscious in Hegel’s Philosophy, David V. Ciavatta. Notre Dame Philosophical Review (March 8, 2011): http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=22969
German Idealism and the Concept of Punishment, Jean-Christophe Merle. Notre Dame Philosophical Review (February 18, 2010): http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=18947
Hegel’s Practical Philosophy, Robert B. Pippin. Notre Dame Philosophical Review (May 5, 2009): http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=16005
Contradiction in Motion: Hegel’s Organic Concept of Life and Value, Songsuk Susan Hahn. Clio 38, 2 (Spring 2009): 34-39.
Translations
Translations
Vittorio Hösle, “What can we learn from Hegel’s objective-idealist theory of the concept that goes beyond the theories of Sellars, McDowell, and Brandom?” Dimensions of Hegel’s Dialectic, ed. Nectarios Limnatis (New York: Continuum Press, 2010), 216-236.
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