Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521172349)

This 2007 book examines the possibilities for the rehabilitation of Hegelian thought within 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. 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.

Author: Redding Paul, Paul Redding
ISBN-10: 0521172349
ISBN-13: 9780521172349
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2010
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d