Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) - Softcover

Haas, Andrew

9780810116702: Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810116707 ISBN 13: 9780810116702

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2000

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.

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About the Author:

Andrew Haas teaches Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.

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