Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780810116696)

At the center of Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity is the question: what could the term "multiplicity" mean for philosophy? Andrew Haas contends that most contemporary philosophical understandings of multiplicity are either Aristotelian or Kantian and that these approaches have solidified into a philosophy guided by categories of identity and different--categories to which multiplicity as such cannot be reduced. The Hegelian conception of multiplicity, Haas suggests, is opposed to both categories--or, in fact, supersedes them. To come to terms with this critique, Haas undertakes a rigorous, technical analysis of Hegel's Science of Logic. The result is a reading of the concept of multiplicity as multiple, that is, as multiplicities.

Author: Andrew Haas
ISBN-10: 0810116693
ISBN-13: 9780810116696
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/25/2000
Pages: 355
Format: Hardcover
Size: 9.25h x 6.25w x 1.00d