Problems of the Hegelian Dialectic: Dialectic Reconstructed as a Logic of Human Reality: 225 (Synthese Library, 225) - Hardcover

Rosen, M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792320476 ISBN 13: 9780792320470

Publisher: Springer, 1992

Synopsis

In this book, I deal with some fundamental problems of the Hegelian dialectic. For this purpose, I take a middle course between total scepticism, which considers dialectic as a devastator sophistry with no respect even for the non-contradiction principle, and authoritarian dogmatism, which claims to solve any question with the magic wand of the Hegelian Aufhebung. That is, I decide to be critical, defining concepts anew, bringing out sources, determining conditions of possibility and fields of validity, accepting or rejecting when necessary. Following G. R. G. Mure's thinking, from an inner point of view I examine whether, in carrying out his work, Hegel remains faithful to the different principles he proclaims, and I find substantial deviations. And, following W. Becker's thinking, from an external point of view, that is, from a formal, empirical or existential contemporary angle, I try to determine the extent to which we may legitimately talk about the fruitfulness of Hegelian dialectic. In this way, I reconstruct Hegel's thought so that it may become acceptable to us-readers of the twentieth-century-as intelligible and coherent as possible. I conclude that dialectic, as a logic of human reality, has to be grasped and expressed from the viewpoint of the particular historical individual, in constant interaction with the cultural environment of his or her time. Using this approach, I investigate the questions at issue from Hegel's Logic point of view.

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Problems of the Hegelian Dialectic Examining the nature, conditions of possibility and scope of a valid dialectical logic, this book opens with an exposition, from an Hegelian point of view, of the categories of Identity, Difference and Contradiction. It discusses some basic issues such as the problems of the Beginning, the End, the Language, and the problem of Nature and Matter. Full description

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This work, written from the standpoint of Hegel's Logic, examines the nature, conditions of possibility and scope of a valid dialectical logic. For this purpose it scrutinizes, criticizes and reconstructs it so that it may serve as a logic of Human reality. Refusing to be 'revisionist' as far as Natural Sciences are concerned, the proposed viewpoint asserts that in this domain Dialectic is incapable of great fruitfulness - there is no 'Dialectic of Nature'. As for the domain of Human reality - as historical, social and cultural reality - the book suggests that such a reconstructed Dialectic, at last conscious of its own univocal limits, may help the Social Sciences and Human Studies to develop further. The book opens with an exposition, from an Hegelian point of view, of the basic categories of Identity, Difference and Contradiction. Then, in this Hegelian context, some basic issues are posed and discussed, such as the problems of the Beginning, the End, the Language, and the problem of Nature and Matter. To end with, Dialectic is proposed as a way of explanation, both progressive and regressive, elucidating Human experience while at once elucidating itself.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792320476
• ISBN 13: 9780792320470
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 287