Hegel's Metaphysics of Subjectivity : The Truth of Substance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tripaldi, Elena.

Series:

Contemporary Studies in Idealism Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.

Summary:

Through in-depth and original textual analysis, this book clarifies the scope of Hegel's Science of Logic, the meaning of his identification of logic and metaphysics, and his relation to traditional metaphysics and Kant's philosophy.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title Page

Series Page

Title Page

Dedication Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1

What Do We Mean When We Say Metaphysics? The Contemporary Debate on Hegel's Metaphysics

1.1 The roots of the debate between "metaphysical" and "nonmetaphysical" interpretations of Hegel

1.2 A nonmetaphysical view of Hegel: Hegel as a category theorist

1.3 Pippin's "post-Kantian" interpretation

1.4 From "nonsubstantial metaphysics" to the metaphysics of experience: Pippin's latest interpretation

1.5 Revised metaphysical interpretations

2

Hegel's Ambiguous Meta-Metaphysics

2.1 In the place of metaphysics: The disappearance of metaphysics in the mature system

2.2 The holy of holies: Logic and metaphysics in the Logic's first preface

2.3 Representation and reflective thinking: Metaphysics between finite and infinite thought

2.4 The beginning of philosophy: Reflective thinking between Greekness and modernity

2.5 A naïve procedure: Metaphysics as First Position of Thought

2.6 Missing totalities: Metaphysica generalis and metaphysica specialis

2.7 Metaphysics' performative failure: Almost-speculative propositions

2.8 Another metaphysics?

2.9 A need for concreteness: The merit of empiricism and skepticism

2.10 Considering thought "in and for itself": The merit of critical philosophy

2.11 Objectivity and the unconditioned: Kant's limitations

2.12 Ambition and humility: Metaphysics in the face of Kant's Critical Philosophy as Second Position of Thought

2.13 Another metaphysics: Objective thought as speculative thought

2.14 Objective thought and the goals of the logic

2.15 Objective thought as method

3

"The Truth of Substance": Hegel's Metaphysics of Subjectivity

3.1 Objective logic, subjective logic, and metaphysics.

3.2 The immediacy of determination as the topic of the Doctrine of Being

3.2.1 Quality, or determinateness as a suppression of negativity

3.2.2 From quantity to measure: The progressive emergence of negativity as prior to determination

3.2.3 Measure, or negativity beyond immediacy

3.2.4 Negativity as primary: The emergence of essence

3.3 The Doctrine of Being as immanent critique of Metaphysica generalis

3.4 Essence "in and for itself": The task of the Doctrine of Essence

3.5 The magic of nihilism: Reflection as the fundamental structure of subjectivity

3.5.1 Toward Reflection: Essential and Inessential and Shine

3.5.2 From nothingness to nothingness: Reflection as absolute negativity

3.5.3 Determining Reflection between essence "in itself" and "in and for itself"

3.5.4 Essence "in and for itself" as immanent critique of metaphysica generalis

3.6 Immanent critique of metaphysics in the Actuality section

3.6.1 Before Actuality: The Essential Relation

3.6.2 Against traditional metaphysical understandings of the absolute: Negative and positive exposition of the absolute

3.6.3 The Absolute as Attribute

3.6.4 The Mode of the Absolute

3.6.5 Immanent critique of traditional metaphysics in the Absolute chapter: Spinoza

3.6.6 Modality in the Actuality chapter

3.6.7 Formal Actuality and Possibility

3.6.8 Relative Necessity

3.6.9 Absolute Necessity

3.6.10 Absolute Necessity as "blind": Furthering of the immanent critique of metaphysics in the Actuality chapter

3.6.11 The Relation of Substantiality

3.6.12 The Relation of Causality

3.6.13 Necessity unveiled: Reciprocity of Action as realization of the necessity of contingency

3.6.14 The becoming of the Concept

4

"The True Not Only as Substance, But Also as Subject": Hegel's Metaphysics of Subjectivity.

4.1 Objective Logic between metaphysica generalis and metaphysica specialis

4.2 "The truth of substance": Are Concept and subjectivity transcendental structures?

4.3 Logic as metaphysics: Concept and objective thought

4.4 Concept and transcendental unity of apperception

4.5 Science of Logic as metaphysics

Conclusions

Notes

References

Index.

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Print version: Tripaldi, Elena Hegel's Metaphysics of Subjectivity

ISBN:

9798216256007

9781978770355