The Opening of Hegel's Logic: From Being to Infinity
Hegel is one of the most important modern philosophers, whose thought influenced the development of existentialism, Marxism, pragmatism, hermeneutics, and deconstruction. Yet Hegel's central text, the monumental Science of Logic, still remains for most philosophers (both figuratively and literally) a firmly closed book. The purpose of The Opening of Hegel's Logic is to dispel t...
Hegel is one of the most important modern philosophers, whose thought influenced the development of existentialism, Marxism, pragmatism, hermeneutics, and deconstruction. Yet Hegel's central text, the monumental Science of Logic, still remains for most philosophers (both figuratively and literally) a firmly closed book. The purpose of The Opening of Hegel's Logic is to dispel the myths that surround the Logic and to show that Hegel's unjustly neglected text is a work of extraordinary subtlety and insight. Part One argues that the Logic provides a rigorous derivation of the fundamental categories of thought and contrasts Hegel's approach to the categories with that of Kant. It goes on to examine the historical and linguistic presuppositions of Hegel's self-critical, ""presuppositionless"" logic and, in the process, considers several signifi cant criticisms of such logic advanced by Schelling, Feuerbach, Gadamer, and Kierkegaard. Separate chapters are devoted to the relation between logic and ontology in Hegel's Logic and to the relation between the Logic itself and the Phenomenology. Part Two contains the text-in German and English-of the first two chapters of Hegel's Logic, which cover such categories as being, becoming, something, limit, finitude, and infinity. Part Three then provides a clear and accessible commentary on these two chapters that both examines Hegel's arguments in detail and relates his insights to those of other philosophers, such as Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, and Levinas. The Opening of Hegel's Logic aims to help students and scholars read Hegel's often formidably difficult text for themselves and discover the wealth of philosophical riches that it contains. It also argues that Hegel's project of a presuppositionless science of logic is one that deserves serious consideration today.
斯蒂芬·霍尔盖特（1954—），哲学家，英国华威大学哲学教授，以研究黑格尔、海德格尔和德里达等人的思想著名。代表性著作有：《黑格尔、尼采和对形而上学的批判》（1986）、《黑格尔导论：自由、真理与历史》（2005）、《黑格尔〈逻辑学〉开篇：从存在到无限性》（2006）、《黑格尔的〈精神现象学〉：一部读者指南》（2013）。主编并参与编辑：《黑格尔与自然哲学》（1998）、《黑格尔读者》（1998）、《黑格尔与艺术》（2007）、《黑格尔法哲学原理》（2008）、《黑格尔指南》（2011）。
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刘一，武汉人，哲学博士，武汉纺织大学教师，主要研究德国哲学，著有《无限性的变异：黑格尔〈精神现象学〉的内容与结构》（博士论文）、《从教化到启蒙：论〈精神现象学〉精神章中“第二自我”的形成》（博士后出站报告），以及相关学术论文数篇。