Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity

This book provides a robustly metaphysical, Hegelian account of the relation between appearance, thought and reality.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Brady Bowman, Brady (Pennsylvania State University) Bowman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9781107499683
• ISBN: 978-1-107-49968-3
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics; Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works