Hegel's Science of Logic: A Critical Rethinking in Thirty Lectures

by Richard Dien Winfield

Overview

This text provides a truly comprehensive guide to one of the most important and challenging works of modern philosophy. The systematic complexity of Hegel's radical project in the Science of Logic prevents many from understanding and appreciating its value. By independently and critically working through Hegel's argument, this book offers an enlightening aid for study and anchors the Science of Logic at a central position in the philosophical canon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442219366
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/27/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	390
File size:	773 KB

About the Author

Richard Dien Winfield is Distinguished Research Professor in the philosophy department at the University of Georgia.

Table of Contents

Preface
Lecture 1: General Introduction
Lecture 2: The General Concept of Logic
Lecture 3: With What Must the Science Begin?
Lecture 4: Being, Nothing, Becoming
Lecture 5: From Becoming to Determinate Being
Lecture 6: Determinate Being
Lecture 7: Something
Lecture 8: Finitude
Lecture 9: Infinity
Lecture 10: Being-For-Self
Lecture 11: The One
Lecture 12: Quantity
Lecture 13: From Measure to Essence
Lecture 14: Essence
Lecture 15: Essence as Reflection within Itself
Lecture 16: From Reflection to Existence
Lecture 17: From Appearance to Actuality
Lecture 18: Transition to the Concept
Lecture 19: The Concept
Lecture 20: From Concept to Judgment
Lecture 21: Judgment
Lecture 22: From Judgment to Syllogism
Lecture 23: Syllogism
Lecture 24: Objectivity
Lecture 25: Mechanism, Chemism, and Teleology
Lecture 26: From Objectivity to Idea
Lecture 27: From Life to Cognition
Lecture 28: The Idea of Cognition
Lecture 29: Truth and the Good
Lecture 30: The Absolute Idea
Works Cited
Index

Editorial Reviews

Winfield is capable of a sophisticated and plausible argumentation that throws a great deal of light on the reasoning that Hegel uses as he develops his system.

Mind: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy

In Hegel’s Science of Logic, Richard Winfield provides a clear and detailed guide through the entirety of one of the most influential, and demanding, works in the philosophic tradition. Following the lecture format and style, Winfield calls attention to a problem, reaches an impasse, or confronts a dilemma, and then opens the way to a resolution, as he patiently leads the reader along the complex paths of Hegel’s argumentation. In the process he uncovers the novel project Hegel undertakes in his Logic, while illuminating the role it plays in the Hegelian corpus as a whole.

Robert B. Berman

Winfield is capable of a sophisticated and plausible argumentation that throws a great deal of light on the reasoning that Hegel uses as he develops his system.

Mind: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy

It should be noted interest, by endeavoring to follow faithfully the Hegelian presentation, including joints and transitions are well explained, provides the English reader a significant help in reading a difficult text.

Bulletin de littérature hégélienne

It should be noted interest, by endeavoring to follow faithfully the Hegelian presentation, including joints and transitions are well explained, provides the English reader a significant help in reading a difficult text.

Bulletin de littérature hégélienne