Brady Bowman (Pennsylvania State University)

Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781107499683
• ISBN-10: 1107499682
• Artikelnr.: 42138796

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.