Conceptual Harmonies

Paul Redding is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Continental Idealism: Leibniz to Nietzsche and Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought.

• Hegel’s Texts: Translations and AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionBeginning: Hegel’s Classicism1 Logic, Mathematics, and Philosophy in Fourth-Century Athens2 Hegel and the Platonic Origins of Aristotle’s Syllogistic3 The General Significance of Neoplatonic Harmonic Theory for Hegel’s Account of MagnitudeMiddle: Classical Meets Modern4 Geometry and Philosophy in Hegel, Schelling, Carnot, and Grassmann5 The Role of Analysis Situs in Leibniz’s Modernization of Logic6 Hegel’s Supersession of Leibniz and Newton: The Limitations of Calculus and Logical CalculusEnd: The Modern as Redetermined Classical7 Exploiting Resources within Aristotle for the Rehabilitation of the Syllogism8 The Return of Leibnizian Logic in the Nineteenth Century: From Boole to Heyting9 Hegel among the New Leibnizians: Judgments10 Hegel beyond the New Leibnizians: SyllogismsConclusion: The God at the Terminus of Hegel’s LogicAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"In making his case, Redding places Hegel's discussion of logic and mathematics in a broad historical context, ranging from Plato's academy through Kepler, Newton, Leibniz, Frege, Boole, and Peirce. . . The book will be of interest to Hegel's scholars, not least of all for the challenge it mounts to Robert Brandom's contention that Hegel is best understood within the project of analytic philosophy."