Hegel and the Problem of the History of Philosophy: The Logical Structure of Exemplarity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350423763)

Drawing on the work of major philosophers in 18th and 19th-century German idealism, Thomas Raysmith critically examines G. W. F. Hegel's justification for the claim that philosophy has a history.

While Kant regarded philosophy as ahistorical, Hegel considered it to be a discipline that is necessarily historical, and elaborated a 'logical structure' that was supposed to allow it to have a history. Calling this structure, which Hegel took to be the fundamental structure of thought itself, 'the structure of exemplarity', Raysmith presents it as a dynamic reciprocity between universality, particularity and singularity. He provides a historical reconstruction of the shifting conceptions of philosophy from Kant, through J. G. Fichte and F. W. J. Schelling, to Hegel, and offers a systematic analysis of Hegel's Science of Logicbased on a close, critical reading.

Offering a compelling and novel reading of Hegel's thought, Hegel and the Problem of the History of Philosophyis a groundbreaking work for students and scholars of German idealism and the history of philosophy more broadly.

Author: Thomas Raysmith
ISBN-10: 1350423769
ISBN-13: 9781350423763
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 02/20/2025
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d