On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative (Renewing Philosophy)

Contents......Page 6
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 14
1 Introduction......Page 23
2 The Essay on Natural Law......Page 24
3 The Oresteia......Page 27
4 Tragic Entanglements......Page 28
5 The Antigone......Page 30
6 The Logic of Entanglement......Page 38
1 Introduction......Page 43
2 Reason and the Understanding......Page 44
3 Transcendental Synthesis......Page 47
4 Hegel, Kant, and General Metaphysics......Page 49
5 Hegel, Kant, and Special Metaphysics......Page 50
6 The Content of the Logic......Page 52
7 From the Ego to the Concept......Page 55
8 Synthetic Concepts as Definitions of the Absolute......Page 57
9 The Role of Synthetic Concepts in Finite Knowledge......Page 60
10 The Principle of Speculative Science......Page 63
1 Introduction......Page 67
2 The History of Pure Thought......Page 68
3 The Doctrine of Being......Page 72
4 The Doctrine of Essence......Page 76
5 The Doctrine of the Concept......Page 79
6 The Concept of Something......Page 81
7 The Guises of Absolute Negativity......Page 84
8 The Cunning of the Concept......Page 89
9 The Method of Speculative Science......Page 93
1 Introduction......Page 97
2 The Tragic Strand of Kant’s Doctrine of the Antinomies......Page 98
3 The Concept of Infinity......Page 101
4 The Concept of Being-for-Itself......Page 105
5 The Concept of Contradiction......Page 108
6 Recognition......Page 110
7 Tragedy and Modernity......Page 113
1 Introduction......Page 116
2 Hegel and Schelling......Page 118
3 A Circle of Circles: The Construction of the System......Page 122
4 The Logical Beginning of the World......Page 131
5 Hegel’s Metaphysics of Time......Page 134
6 The Initial Entanglement of Concept and Time......Page 139
1 Introduction......Page 141
2 The Middle Term between Nature and Consciousness......Page 142
3 Aether......Page 145
4 Space and Time......Page 146
5 Inorganic and Organic Nature......Page 150
6 The Animal......Page 151
7 Human Consciousness......Page 155
8 Conclusion......Page 158
1 Introduction......Page 160
2 The Immemorial Advent of Language......Page 162
3 The Original Word......Page 165
4 The Interpenetration of Language and Thought......Page 167
1 Introduction......Page 171
2 The End-Relation......Page 173
3 External Purposiveness......Page 174
4 The Means......Page 175
5 Internal Purposiveness......Page 177
6 The Ultimate End of the World......Page 179
7 The Entanglement of the End and its Inner Externality......Page 184
8 Finite Spirit......Page 188
9 Tragic Negativity......Page 190
1 Introduction......Page 193
2 Hegel’s Conception of World History......Page 194
3 Economy......Page 198
4 Politics......Page 202
5 Intercultural Conflicts......Page 208
6 The Goal of World History......Page 215
Conclusion......Page 218
Notes......Page 221
Bibliography......Page 264
Index......Page 273