Essays on Hegel's Logic - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791402924 ISBN 13: 9780791402924

Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr, 1990

Synopsis

This book, covering all aspects of Hegel's logic, raises fundamental issues as well as particular problems of interpretation. It discusses whether a speculative logic is possible at all and whether Hegelian logic requires a metalogic or whether it can and ought to make an absolute beginning. It examines, conceptually and historically, the being-nothing dialectic, the relation of essence to show (Schein), and Hegel's treatment of the modal categories. It proposes radically different views of the role of the 'understanding' in Hegelian logic and a radically different view of the necessity underlying it. The book concludes with the argument that Hegel's dialectical logic can cope with a problem that Aristotle's could not.

Essays on Hegel's Logic provides a welcome introduction to those interested in this central piece of Hegel's system, and it poses the question of whether, and how, the logic provides a closure to the system. In different ways, and with different degrees of explicitness, the book deals precisely with this issue.

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About the Author

George di Giovanni is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. He co-translated Between Kant and Hegel: Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism, also published by SUNY Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791402924
• ISBN 13: 9780791402924
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230
• Editor: Di Giovanni George