Julie E. Maybee

Picturing Hegel (eBook, ePUB)

An Illustrated Guide to Hegel's Encyclopaedia Logic

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In her innovative take on G.W. F. Hegel's The Encyclopaedia Logic, Julie E. Maybee uses pictures and diagrams to cut through the philosopher's dense, difficult writing. Picturing Hegel: An Illustrated Guide to Hegel's Encyclopaedia Logic utilizes diagrams in order to rehabilitate Hegel's logic for serious consideration by showing how each stage develops step-by-step from earlier stages according to definite, logical patterns. This interpretation makes Hegel's work accessible and understandable for new and experienced readers alike. Because Hegel uses the same logic in all of his works, Maybee's analysis and defense of the logic will capture the attention of those readers interested in Hegel's ethics, politics, history, philosophy of religion, and phenomenology.

Through the included diagrams, Maybee is able to define central Hegelian concepts such as "being-in-itself," and "being-in-and-for-itself" with a new level of precision. Maybee argues that Hegel's logic does not include the one logistical pattern most often attributed to him; namely, the pattern "thesis-antithesis-synthesis." Rather, Hegel's model of logic was more scientific than formalistic in nature, as the philosopher himself pointed out. Hegel considered himself an encyclopedic culmination of Western philosophy in some ways, and indeed his work summarizes many of the presuppositions of Western philosophy. By picturing Hegel's logic, we can gain a greater understanding of ourselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 668
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739139790
• Artikelnr.: 39254864

Autorenporträt

Julie E. Maybee is assistant professor of philosophy at Lehman College, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 1. Entering the Gallery: Hegel's Overall Project and the Project of
the Logic Chapter 2 I. The Skepticism of Hume and Kant Chapter 3 II. Reason
Overgrasps Reality Chapter 4 III. Essential, Necessary Universals Chapter 5
IV. Reason Drives Itself: Semantics and Syntax Chapter 6 V. Hegel's
Argument Chapter 7 VI. Hegel's Overall Project Chapter 8 VII. The
Conceptual and Semantic Project of the Logic Chapter 9 VIII. The Syntactic
Project of the Logic Part 10 2. The Doctrine of Being Chapter 11 I.
Introduction Chapter 12 II. The Doctrine of Quality Chapter 13 III. The
Doctrine of Quantity Chapter 14 IV. The Doctrine of Measure Chapter 15 V.
Wrap Up Being: Comments on Syntax Part 16 3. The Doctrine of Essence
Chapter 17 I. Introduction Chapter 18 II. Essence as the Ground of
Existence Chapter 19 III. The Doctrine of Appearance Chapter 20 IV. The
Doctrine of Actuality Chapter 21 V. Wrap Up Essence: Comments on Syntax
Part 22 4. The Doctrine of Concept Chapter 23 I. Introduction Chapter 24
II. The Doctrine of the Subjective or Formal Concept Chapter 25 III. The
Doctrine of the Object Chapter 26 IV. The Doctrine of the Idea Chapter 27
V. Wrap up Concept: Comments on Syntax Chapter 28 VI. Epilogue: Hegel's
Materialism, Optimism, and Faith