Picturing Hegel

An Illustrated Guide to Hegel's Encyclopaedia Logic

Julie E. Maybee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

668 Seiten

2009
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1616-6 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.8.2009
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 230 mm
Gewicht	877 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	0-7391-1616-9 / 0739116169
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-1616-6 / 9780739116166
Zustand	Neuware