Hegel and the Problem of the History of Philosophy - The Logical Structure of Exemplarity

Drawing on the work of major philosophers in 18th and 19th-century German idealism, Thomas Raysmith critically examines G. W. F. Hegel''s justification that philosophy has a history. Contrary to Kant''s claims, Hegel not only considered philosophy as a discipline with its own history, but also elaborated a ''logical structure'' associated with the fundamental nature of thought itself, permitting a history of philosophy. Calling this structure ''the structure of exemplarity'', Raysmith presents it as a dynamic reciprocity between universality, particularity and singularity. He provides a historical reconstruction of the shifting understanding of the fundamental nature of human thought from Kant, through J. G. Fichte and F. W. J. Schelling, to Hegel''s mature logic. He offers a systematic analysis based on close, critical readings of Hegel''s work, specifically his Science of Logic . Offering a compelling and novel reading of Hegel''s thought, Hegel and the Problem of the History of Philosophy is a groundbreaking work for students and scholars of German idealism and the history of philosophy more broadly.>

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Raysmith
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2025
• EAN: 9781350423763
• ISBN: 978-1-350-42376-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 238 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Germany, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Idealism, Idealism, History of Western philosophy, Western philosophy: Enlightenment