Absolute Form : Modality, Individuality and the Principle of Philosophy in Kant and Hegel.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the English Edition -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Philosophy and Its Topic -- 2 Form as Relation-Preliminaries -- 3 On the Form of the Syllogism -- 4 External Reflection -- 5 Consciousness and Appearance -- Chapter 2 Kant and Hegel -- 1 Critique and System -- 2 From Kant to Hegel? -- 3 Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, Language -- Chapter 3 Absolute Individuality -- 1 Individualisation of Cognition -- a) Absolute Inversion -- b) Infinite Proposition -- c) Cognition as Process and Definition -- 2 On the Way to the Predicate -- a) Reality of Perception -- b) Categories and the Context of Experience -- c) Transcendental Ideal -- 3 Hegel's Category of the Absolute -- a) The Absolute in the Logic -- b) Interpreting the Absolute -- c) Absolute Attribute -- d) Modus of the Absolute -- Chapter 4 Kant's Modal Concepts -- 1 Logical versus Ontological Modality -- a) Kant's Concept of Logic -- b) Kant and the History of Modal Logic -- 2 Differentiating Logical Modality -- a) Logical Possibility -- b) Logical Actuality (Truth) -- c) Logical Necessity -- d) Logical Modality and Unity of Thought -- 3 Postulates of Empirical Thinking -- a) Status of Modal Principles -- b) Possibility Postulate -- c) Actuality Postulate -- d) Necessity Postulate -- 4 Absolute Modality -- Chapter 5 Hegel's Logos of Actuality -- 1 Actuality and Language that Speaks -- 2 Contingency and Its Formal Interpretation -- 3 Relative Necessity or Actuality of Content -- 4 Absolute Necessity -- 5 Absolute Relation -- a) Substantiality -- b) Causality -- c) Reciprocity -- 6 Science of Absolute Form -- Bibliography -- i Primary Sources -- ii Other Cited Texts and Secondary Literature -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

Highlighting Hegel's conceptual realism Hoffmann focuses on an undervalued move in his dialectic: inversion (μεταβολή). Easily proving completeness for Kant's table of categories, Hoffmann shows how metabolic dialectic substantiates Hegel's claim for his Logic: it is indeed the science of absolute form!.

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