Absolute Dialetheism

Gregory S. Moss is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before joining CUHK, he was lecturer in Philosophy at Clemson University and was awarded his PhD in 2014 from University of Georgia, USA. He completed a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Bonn, Germany in 2013-14, where he investigated Schelling’s influence on Hegel’s Doctrine of the Concept under Markus Gabriel. He previously published Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics: The Logic of Singularity (Routledge, 2020), winner of the 2022 Hegel PD prize. He has edited many volumes, including Mythical Totalities (Mohr Siebeck, 2024) and The Dialectics of Absolute Nothingness, co-edited with Takeshi Morisato (Cornell University Press, 2025). He has also translated two works from German into English, including Markus Gabriel's Why the World Does Not Exist (2015).

• AcknowledgementsForeword by Brook ZiporynPreface: The Theocene1. Introduction: Philosophy as Absolute Thinking2. Purification and Absolute Dialectics3. Hegel’s Rational Dialetheism4. Schelling’s Metaphysical Empiricism5. Mystical Dialetheism6. Philosophical Religion7. The Ontological Genesis of the Absolute8. Absolute Nothingness and The Principle of Sufficient Reason9. Beyond Dialetheism: The Trans-Consistent Theory of Truth10. Conclusion: Alethic Singularity

What I love about Moss’s book is that it shows how philosophy thought through absolutely on its own premises – from Descartes’s radical doubt to Hegel’s absolute knowing – is inherently contradictory and opens to a dimension that is religious or mystical along lines acknowledged by Wittgenstein and traced by Schelling. Thinking that is absolutely consistent with itself can become complacent for lack of confrontation with alterity, but Moss’s philosophy demonstrates how absolutely self-consistent thinking has to be absolutely self-contradictory. He upsets our most settled assumptions about the nature of thinking. His Absolute Dialetheism produces a provocatively new positioning among themselves of a great array of contemporary currents and classic monuments of philosophical thinking.