The first anthology explicitly dedicated to Hegel’s linguistic thought, Hegel and Language presents various facets of a new wave of Hegel scholarship. The chapters are organized around themes that include the possibility of systematic philosophy, truth and objectivity, and the relation of Hegel’s thought to analytic and postmodern approaches to language.
While there is considerable diversity among the various approaches to and assessments of Hegel’s linguistic thought, the volume as a whole demonstrates that not only was language central for Hegel, but also that his linguistic thought still has much to offer contemporary philosophy. The book also includes an extensive introductory survey of the linguistic thought of the entire German Idealist movement and the contemporary issues that emerged from it.
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Jere O’Neill Surber
SECTION 1: LANGUAGE AND THE POSSIBILITY OF SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY
1. Fragmentation, Contamination, Systematicity: The Threats of Representation and the Immanence of Thought by Kevin Thompson
2. Language and Metaphysics: The Dialectics of Hegel’s Speculative Proposition by Chong-Fuk Lau
3. The Language of Hegel’s Speculative Philosophy by Angelica Nuzzo
SECTION 2: LANGUAGE, SUBJECTIVITY, AND “OBJECTIVE TRUTH”
4. Objective Language and Scientific Truth in Hegel by Jeffrey Reid
5. Sound—Tone—Word: Toward an Hegelian Philosophy of Language by John McCumber
6. Telling the Truth: Systematic Philosophy and the Aufhebung of Poetic and Religious Language by Will Dudley
SECTION 3: HEGEL AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
7. Language, Objects, and the Missing Link: Toward a Hegelian Theory of Reference by Katharina Dulckeit
8. The Realm of Abstraction: The Role of Grammar in Hegel’s Linguistic System by Jim Vernon
9. The Logic of Language Change by David Kolb
SECTION 4: POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVES ON HEGEL’S LINGUISTIC VIEWS
10. The Three Hegels: Kojéve, Hyppolite, and Derrida on Hegel’s Philosophy of Language by Catherine Kellogg
11. Hegel, Kristeva, and the Language of Revolution by Claire May
12. Speculative Rhythm by Katrin Pahl
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