Hegelian metaphysics / Robert Stern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stern, Robert, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics--History.

Metaphysics.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 397 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The great German idealist philosopher G. W. F. Hegel has exerted an immense influence on the development of philosophy from the early 19th century to the present. But the metaphysical aspects of his thought are still under-appreciated. In a series of essays Robert Stern traces the development of a distinctively Hegelian approach to metaphysics and certain central metaphysical issues. The book begins with an introduction that considers this theme as a whole, followed by a section ofessays on Hegel himself. Stern then focuses on the way in which certain key metaphysical ideas in Hegel's system,

Contents:

How is Hegelian metaphysics possible?

Hegel's idealism

Did Hegel hold an identity theory of truth?

Hegel's doppelsatz : a neutral reading

British Hegelianism : a non-metaphysical view?

Hegel, British idealism, and the curious case of the concrete universal

Coherence as a test for truth

Hegel and pragmatism

Peirce on Hegel : nominalist or realist?

Peirce, Hegel and the category of secondness

Peirce, Hegel, and the category of firstness

James and Bradley on the limits of human understanding

Individual existence and the philosophy of difference.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-390) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-964011-4

0-19-156891-0

9786612267475

1-282-26747-7

OCLC:

463184701