Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity

Informationen zum Autor Brady Bowman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University, and a consulting member of the executive committee of the Hegel Society of America. His recent publications include Sense Certainty: On the Systematic Pre-History of a Problem in German Idealism (2003). Klappentext This book provides a robustly metaphysical, Hegelian account of the relation between appearance, thought and reality. Zusammenfassung Bowman explores how Hegel developed a methodology identifiably his own! making a break with predecessors such as Kant and Wolff. His book provides a robustly metaphysical! Hegelian account of the relation between appearance! thought and reality! and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Hegel. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. 'A completely altered view of logic'; 1. The Hegelian concept, absolute negativity, and the transformation of philosophical critique; 2. Hegel's complex relationship to 'pre-Kantian' metaphysics; 3. Hegelian skepticism and the 'idealism of the finite'; 4. Skeptical implications for the foundations of natural science; 5. The methodology of finite cognition and the ideal of mathematical rigor; 6. 'Die Sache Selbst' - absolute negativity and Hegel's speculative logic of content; 7. Absolute negation and the history of logic.

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• Authors: Brady Bowman, Brady (Pennsylvania State University) Bowman, Bowman Brady
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2013
• EAN: 9781107033597
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03359-7
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, Europe, Germany, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Central Europe, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards