Acknowledgments
Introduction
ONE / The Historical Context
TWO / The Prefaces
THREE / The Introduction
FOUR / The Beginning of Logical Science
FIVE / From Being to Existence
SIX / Transitional Remarks
SEVEN / Quantity
EIGHT / Quantitative Relation
NINE / Transition to Book Two
TEN / The Fichtean Background
ELEVEN / The Nature of Essence
TWELVE / Contradiction
THIRTEEN / Absolute Ground
FOURTEEN / Foundationalism and Antifoundationalism
FIFTEEN / Appearance
SIXTEEN / Actuality
SEVENTEEN / Introduction to Book Three
EIGHTEEN / Subjectivity
NINETEEN / Judgment
TWENTY / Objectivity
TWENTY-ONE / The Idea
Notes
Index
Stanley Rosen (1929–2014) was the Borden Parker Bowne Professor and University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. He is the author of many books, including Nihilism: A Philosophical Essay, The Limits of Analysis, and Plato’s Republic: A Study, among others.
“This volume will be of enduring interest to students and scholars
seeking a lucid companion to Hegel’s most difficult work.”
*Choice*
“Combines comprehensive exegesis and philosophical penetration more
successfully than any other study so far published on
Hegel'sScience of Logic. No one who is seriously interested in
Hegel can afford to neglect Rosen's book.”
*Philosophical Review*
“Combines comprehensive exegesis and philosophical penetration more
successfully than any other study so far published on
Hegel'sScience of Logic. No one who is seriously interested in
Hegel can afford to neglect Rosen's book.”
*Philosophical Reviews*
“Stanley Rosen’s undertaking in The Idea of Hegel’s 'Science of
Logic' is an important and unique contribution to
philosophical literature. It closes an important circle to his
earlier and much-remembered work, Nihilism, a book that analyzed
the problem announced by its title but was not as ambitious as to
suggest a solution—it is precisely this ambition to which this
newest book returns.”
*Omri Boehm, New School*
“Reflection on Hegel as one of the supreme minds of the philosophic
tradition has always been central to the work of Stanley Rosen, but
with this study of Hegel’s Science of Logic he has produced his
definitive account of this formidable treatise, which exhibits the
categorical structure of all being as it develops the
conceptual fractures of Western philosophy. Lucid, thorough, and
historically informed, this study is not merely a commentary but an
effort to understand Hegel by rethinking the problems that animate
his speculative logic. In exemplary fashion it shows how one can
think about philosophy with Hegel’s assistance, and it deserves to
be considered Rosen’s magnum opus.”
*Richard Velkley, Tulane University*
“In this latest book, Stanley Rosen offers lucid commentary on the
work that is at once the most abstruse and the most central to
Hegel’s thought: the Science of Logic, in which Hegel wanted to
build a coherent whole out of whatever was true in previous
thought. Rosen, who has taught and written on almost every
philosopher, can assess the value of Hegel’s claims with perfect
competence. Beyond historical pursuits, however, he brings out the
relevance of Hegel’s logics for our present-day problems by showing
that most contemporary solutions correspond to moments that Hegel
has shown to be merely provisional and which degenerate when
isolated. Hegel’s full articulation of rationality is a powerful
antidote to the rampant nihilism of our time.”
*Remi Brague, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and University
of Munich*
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