Hegel and Spinoza / James Kreines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kreines, James, author.

Series:

Elements in the Philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Elements in the Philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Hegel & Spinoza

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

This Element concerns Hegel's engagement with Spinoza's metaphysics, and divides into three main parts. The first enlists help from Hegel's interpretation to introduce and defend philosophical strengths in Spinoza's defense of metaphysical monism. The second defends Hegel's criticism of Spinoza, concluding that Spinoza's philosophy must eliminate all finitude and determinacy, leaving only a shapeless abyss. The third employs these defenses to open up an approach to the philosophical interpretation of Hegel's Logic, the core of his philosophical system, understanding the meaning of Hegel's ambitious claims in terms of reasons that make them more than the mere unpacking of assumptions.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Imprints page

Hegel and Spinoza

Contents

0 Hegel and Spinoza: From Shapeless Abyss to Self-Developing Thought

0.1 Hegel and Spinoza: Initial Images to Introduce the Chapters Below

0.2 Tight Focus on Reasons, in an Open-Minded Sense

0.3 Defense of Hegel's Critique of Spinoza: Into the Shapeless Abyss

0.4 Hegel as Taking Metaphysics Seriously but Dialectically: To Self-Determining Thought

0.5 Last First Notes

1 Two Kinds of Reasons for Spinoza's Monism

1.1 Mediation in Spinoza's Case for Monism

1.2 An Immediacy Reason in Spinoza?

2 The Abyss: Defense of Hegel's Immanent Critique

2.1 The Nihilo Abyss of Mediation

2.2 The Abyss of Pure Affirmation, or Immediacy Abyss

2.3 Bringing it Together

3 Hegel as Taking Metaphysics Seriously to Take it Dialectically: From Shapeless Abyss to Self-Developing Thought

3.1 Seriously but Dialectically: The Plan

3.2 The Beginning of the Logic: The Problem and Promise of the Abyss

3.3 A Seriously/Dialectically Approach to the Promise and Indeterminacy-Failure of Mediation

3.4 A Seriously/Dialectically Approach to the Conclusion of the Logic: Self-Negation and Self-Developing Thought

Hegel and Spinoza: From the Shapeless Abyss to Self-Developing Thought

Sources

References

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-009-59320-X

OCLC:

1546773202