Hegel on Possibility

Dialectics, Contradiction, and Modality

By: Nahum Brown

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Hardcover | 20 February 2020

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Providing a clear interpretation of Hegel's characterizations of possibility and actuality in the Science of Logic, this book departs from the standard understandings of these concepts to break new ground in Hegelian scholarship.

The book draws out some of the implications of Hegel's view of immanent possibility, especially as it relates to Leibniz's thesis of modal optimism: his view that this world is the best of all possible worlds. Reading Hegel as a philosopher of possibility, against a tradition that has conceived of him primarily as a philosopher of necessity, rationality, and finitude, Nahum Brown demonstrates the historical background and philosophical traditions from which Hegel's concept of possibility emerges.

Systematically outlining Hegel's conceptions of positive and negative freedom, Brown reveals the Hegelian underpinnings of our conception of reality and what it is to be in the world itself. Original and convincing, this book is crucial for philosophers approaching modality from any tradition.

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Hegel is traditionally read as a thinker of necessity, rationality and finitude. In his important new book, Nahum Brown reads Hegel as advancing a novel view of possibility and actuality. Brown's widely informed, important study helps us to grasp Hegel's complex conception of possibility. * Tom Rockmore, Chair Professor of Humanities Professor of Philosophy, Peking University, P. R. China *
Hegel on Possibility offers a close and intellectually rigorous reading of key chapters of Hegel's Science of Logic. In particular, Brown's substitution interpretation of productive contradiction boldly confronts the problem of the contradictory character of totality in Hegel's logic of Absolute knowing. Brown's unique and creative thesis from Modal Optimism challenges traditional readings of Hegel on possibility, and develops the Hegelian approach to possibility in new, unforeseeable, directions. * Gregory Moss, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong *

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