HEGEL'S REALM OF SHADOWS

Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history o f philosophy, The Science of Logic. This is the book that presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists can only be proper ly understood as a logic, or a science of pure thinking. Since he also wrote that the proper object of any such logic is pure th inking itself, it has always been unclear in just what sense such a science could be a metaphysics. Robert B. Pippin offers here a bold, origina...[Read more]