The Company of Words: Hegel, Language, and Systematic Philosophy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810110823)

In this provocative work, John McCumber asks us to understand Hegel's system as a new approach to linguistic communication. Hegel, he argues, is concerned with building community and mutual comprehension rather than with completing metaphysics or developing historical critique. According to McCumber's radial interpretation, Hegel constructs a complex ideal of how we should use certain words. This ideal philosophical vocabulary is flexible and open to revision, and is constructed according to principles available at all time and all places; it is responsive to, but not dictated by, the shared language of cultured discourse whose concepts it attempts to refine and universalize.


Author: John McCumber
ISBN-10: 0810110822
ISBN-13: 9780810110823
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/04/1993
Pages: 442
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.98w x 1.03d