Hegel's Realm of Shadows

"Logic as Metaphysics in ""The Science of Logic"""

Robert B. Pippin

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University of Chicago Press
25 October 2019

Philosophy

Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history of philosophy, The Science of Logic. This is the book that presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists can only be properly understood as a “logic,” or a “science of pure thinking.” Since he also wrote that the proper object of any such logic is pure thinking itself, it has always been unclear in just what sense such a science could be a “metaphysics.”

Robert B. Pippin offers here a bold, original interpretation of Hegel’s claim that only now, after Kant’s critical breakthrough in philosophy, can we understand how logic can be a metaphysics. Pippin addresses Hegel’s deep, constant reliance on Aristotle’s conception of metaphysics, the difference between Hegel’s project and modern rationalist metaphysics, and the links between the “logic as metaphysics” claim and modern developments in the philosophy of logic. Pippin goes on to explore many other facets of Hegel’s thought, including the significance for a philosophical logic of the self-conscious character of thought, the dynamism of reason in Kant and Hegel, life as a logical category, and what Hegel might mean by the unity of the idea of the true and the idea of the good in the “Absolute Idea.” The culmination of Pippin’s work on Hegel and German idealism, this is a book that no Hegel scholar or historian of philosophy will want to miss.

By: Robert B. Pippin
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 15mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9780226703411
ISBN 10: 022670341X
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 25 October 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books on philosophy, literature, art, and film.

Reviews for Hegel's Realm of Shadows: "Logic as Metaphysics in ""The Science of Logic"""

With Hegel's Realm of Shadows the analytic, American interpretation of Hegel has come full circle. . . . There is no doubt that Pippin's interpretation is a feat in both Hegel and Kant scholarship. --British Journal for the History of Philosophy To his numerous and enormously influential studies of important aspects of Hegel's philosophy, Pippin adds another work that is bound to shape our understanding of what for Hegel forms the heart of his philosophy, namely, the Logic. It brilliantly illustrates Pippin's extraordinary Hegel scholarship. It is also remarkably readable and so will be of interest not only to philosophers and philosophy students, but to a wider audience as well. --Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Humboldt University of Berlin This wonderfully clear and exciting book of philosophy is the best book ever written on Hegel's Logic in any language I know. --Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University