Analytic philosophy and the return of Hegelian thought
Examines the possibilities for the rehabilitation of Hegelian thought within current analytic philosophy. From its inception, the analytic tradition has in general accepted Bertrand Russell's hostile dismissal of the idealists, based on the claim that their metaphysical views were irretrievably corrupted by the faulty logic that informed them. But these assumptions are challenged by the work of such analytic philosophers as John McDowell and Robert Brandom, who while contributing to core areas of the analytic movement, nevertheless have found in Hegel sophisticated ideas that are able to address problems which still haunt the analytic tradition after a hundred years. Paul Redding traces the consequences of the displacement of the logic presupposed by Kant and Hegel by modern post-Fregean logic, and examines the developments within twentieth-century analytic philosophy which have made possible an analytic re-engagement with a previously dismissed philosophical tradition.
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Cambridge, UK
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Cambridge University Press
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2007
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x, 252 p.; 24 cm
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Modern European philosophy
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 237-244( and index
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ISBN: 9780521872720
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Paul Redding
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Introduction : analytic philosophy and the fall and rise of the Kant-Hegel tradition -- McDowell, Sellars and the myth of the perceptually given -- Brandom, Sellars and the myth of the logical given. Individuation and determinate negation in Kant and Hegel -- The Kantian route to Hegel's inferentialism -- Aristotelian Phronesis and the perceptual discernment of value -- Kant, Hegel and the dynamics of evaluative reason -- Hegel and contradiction -- Hegel, analytic philosophy and the question of metaphysics