The Jena System 1804-05: Logic & Metaphysics

Studies in the History of Ideas

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, George di Giovanni, John W. Burbidge

As he worked on the Jena sytem, Hegel's understanding of the nature of logic and its connection with metaphysics underwent changes crucial to his later system. As a result, logic acquired a new and expanded significance for him. This text is thus the key to an understanding of the works of Hegel's maturity, and to their relation to the major works of Schelling and Fichte that preceded them. Scholars from the universities of Guelph, Lethbridge, McGill, McMaster, Toronto, Trent, and York have prepared this translation, a work of critical analysis in its own right. The introduction by H.S. Harris adds a concrete dimension to Hegel's abstract categories, showing how, in developing these categories, Hegel was even at ths early date thinking deeply about the structure and life of society.

Genres: Philosophy

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher and one of the founding figures of German Idealism. Influenced by Kant's transcendental idealism and Rousseau's politics, Hegel formulated an elaborate system of historical development of ethics, government, and religion through the dialectical unfolding of the Absolute. Hegel was one of the most well-known historicist philosopher, and his thought presaged continental philosophy, including postmodernism. His system was inverted into a materialist ideology by Karl Marx, originally a member of the Young Hegelian faction.

Reviews

[D. Stark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Binding Logic with Metaphysics echoes his credo, "the rational alone is real". Such a statement is transgressive. This exceeds Cartesian rationalism. The rational is not the sole basis of what is real. Nor is it logical in any fundamental(stress on this term here) sense. Limit is transgression and Hegel's "aufheben" lifts it up as a screen for irrationalism disguised as rationalism.

[Hamid]

متافیزیک:نظام ینا1804-1805 در فارسی با ترجمه محمد مهدی اردبیلی ک توسط انتشارات حکمت به فارسی برگردانده شده است. مقدمه ای مناسب برای شروع کردن پدیدادشناسی روح هگل که با مقدمه راهگشای مترجم به نوشته ای مفید برای علاقمنددان به ایده آلیسم آلمانی تبدیل شده است.