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Analytic philosophy and the return of Hegelian thought

By Paul Redding

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0521872723, 9780521872720
Open Library ID
OL10437957M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1872557 bytes)
Series
Modern European philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
262\262
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Examines the possibilities for the rehabilitation of Hegelian thought within current analytic philosophy. From its inception, the analytic tradition has in general accepted Bertrand Russell's hostile dismissal of the idealists, based on the claim that their metaphysical views were irretrievably corrupted by the faulty logic that informed them. But these assumptions are challenged by the work of such analytic philosophers as John McDowell and Robert Brandom, who while contributing to core areas of the analytic movement, nevertheless have found in Hegel sophisticated ideas that are able to address problems which still haunt the analytic tradition after a hundred years. Paul Redding traces the consequences of the displacement of the logic presupposed by Kant and Hegel by modern post-Fregean logic, and examines the developments within twentieth-century analytic philosophy which have made possible an analytic re-engagement with a previously dismissed philosophical tradition.

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