Hegel and Metaphysics: On Logic and Ontology in the System (Hegel-Jahrbuch Sonderband, 7)

The collective focus of the essays here presented consists of the attempt to overcome the deadlock between metaphysical and non- (or anti-) metaphysical Hegel interpretations. There is no doubt that Hegel rejects traditional and influential forms of metaphysical thought. There is also no doubt that he grounds his philosophical system on a metaphysical theory of thought and reality. The question asked by the contributors in this volume is therefore: __what kind__ of metaphysics does Hegel reject, and __what kind__ does he embrace? Some of the papers address the issue in general and comprehensive terms, but from different, even opposite perspectives: Hegel's claim of a ‘unity’ of logic and metaphysics; his potentially deflationary understanding of metaphysics; his overt metaphysical commitments; his subject-less notion of logical thought; and his criticism of Kant's critique of metaphysics. Other contributors discuss the same topics in view of very specific subject-matter in Hegel's corpus, to wit: the philosophy of self-consciousness; practical philosophy; teleology and holism; a particular brand of naturalism; language's relation to thought; 'true' and ‘spurious’ infinity as pivotal in philosophic thinking; and Hegel's conception of human agency and action. Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Introduction Hegel’s Concept of the True Infinite and the Idea of a post-Critical Metaphysics A Deflationary Approach to Hegel’s Metaphysics Hegel as Metaphysician Hegel’s Overcoming of the Overcoming of Metaphysics A Critique of Non-Metaphysical Readings of Hegel’s Practical Philosophy The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Hegel’s Philosophy of Self-Consciousness The Interplay Between Logic and Metaphysics Hegel’s Metaphysics. The Absence of the Metaphysical Subject in Hegel’s Logic Hegel’s Faith and Knowledge and the Metaphysics that Takes the Place of Metaphysics Hegel’s Metaphysics as Speculative Naturalism Hegel’s Metaphysics of Action On the Limits of Language in a Hegelian Metaphysics The German Ideology and the Sublation of Idealism. On the Salutary Persistence of Hegelian Metaphysics Bibliography List of Contributors Author Index Subject Index This International Collection Of Essays From The 2014 Hegel Society Of America Meeting Addresses Three Major Stances In The Decades-long Controversy On The Topic: Hegel As A Full-blooded Pre-critical Metaphysician; Hegel As A Thinker Without Metaphysics; And Hegel As A Neo-aristotelian Metaphysician Par Excellence. This Work Successfully Overcomes The Stalemates Between ‘analytic’ And ‘continental’, ‘anti-metaphysical’ And ‘metaphysical’ Hegel. A collection of essays from the 2014 Hegel Society of America Meeting that addresses three major stances in the decades-long controversy on the topic: Hegel as a full-blooded pre-critical metaphysician; Hegel as a thinker without metaphysics; and Hegel as a neo-Aristotelian metaphysician par excellence.