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Hegel’s Conception of the Determinate Negation

By Terje Stefan Sparby

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2015
ISBN
9004284605, 9789004284609
ISSN
1878-9986
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1518914 bytes)
Series
Critical Studies in German Idealism 12
Pages
x+350\361
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-07-10 10:33:53
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“The determinate negation” has by Robert Brandom been called Hegel’s most fundamental conceptual tool. In this book, Terje Sparby agrees about the importance of the term, but rejects Brandom’s interpretation of it. Hegel’s actual use of the term may at first seem to be inconsistent, something that is reflected in the scholarship. However, on closer inspection, three forms of determinate negations can be discerned in Hegel’s texts: A nothing that is something, a moment of transformation through loss (like the Phoenix rising from the ashes), and a unity of opposites. Through an in-depth interpretation of Hegel’s work, a comprehensive account of the determinate negation is developed in which these philosophically challenging ideas are seen as parts of one overarching process.

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