The Science Of Logic

GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL The Science of Logic The purpose of the Cambridge Hegel Translations is to offer translations of the best modern German editions of Hegel’s work in a uniform format suitable for Hegel scholars, together with philosophical introductions and full editorial apparatus. This new translation of The Science of Logic by G. W. F. Hegel (also known as his Greater Logic) includes Book One (revised 1832), Book Two (1813) of Volume One, and Volume Two (1816). Recent research has given us a detailed picture of the process that led Hegel to his final conception of the System of Philosophy and of the place of the Logic within it. We now understand how and why Hegel distanced himself from Schelling, how radical this break with his early mentor was, and to what extent it entailed a return (but with a difference) to Fichte and Kant. In the introduction to the volume, George di Giovanni presents in synoptic form the results of recent scholarship on the subject, and, while recognizing the fault lines in Hegel’s System that allow opposite interpretations, argues that the Logic marks the end of classical metaphysics. The translation is accompanied by a full apparatus of historical and explanatory notes. g e or g e di gio va n n i is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Montreal. His previous publications include Freedom and Religion in Kant and his Immediate Successors: The Vocation of Humankind, 1774–1800 (Cambridge, 2005), Between Kant and Hegel: Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism (2000), and The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, Vol VI: Religion and Rational Theology (Cambridge, 1996). CA M B R I DG E HE G E L T RA N S LA TI O N S General editor: Michael Baur Heidelberg Writings: Journal Publications Edited and translated by Brady Bowman and Allen Speight The Science of Logic Edited and translated by George di Giovanni GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL The Science of Logic translated and edited by GEORGE DI GIOVANNI McGill University CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521832557 © George di Giovanni 2010 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2010 ISBN-13 978-0-511-78978-6 eBook (NetLibrary) ISBN-13 978-0-521-83255-7 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in