Hegel's Logic and Metaphysics

Jacob McNulty is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College London. He is the author of numerous journal articles and a Routledge Philosophers volume on Marcuse (forthcoming).

• Introduction; German Idealism and the Logocentric Predicament; 1. 'Irrational Cognition of the Rational': Hegel on Aristotelian Logic; 2. The Ontological Proof as 'The True Critique of the Categories and of Reason': Hegel on Kant's Transcendental Logic; 3. Hegel's Critique of 'The Former Metaphysics'; 4. Hegel's Response to Kant's Critique of Metaphysics; 5. Logical Contradiction and Real Opposition: Hegel on the Laws of Logic; 6. Mediated Immediacy: Concept, Judgment and Syllogism; 7. A Circle of Circles: Analysis, Synthesis, Dialectic.

'Hegel's Logic might be the most obscure major work in the history of Western philosophy. Jacob McNulty's Hegel's Logic and Metaphysics marks a great advance in dispelling the obscurity. McNulty focuses on a deceptively simple question – how does Hegel justify the laws and materials of logic?–and in the course of answering it he offers a clear, well-argued, and original interpretation of the nature of Hegelian metaphysics.' Mark Vinzenz Alznauer, Northwestern University