1st Edition

Reviving Hegel’s Dialectic Contradiction as Method and Metaphysics

Edited By Edgar Maraguat, Rafael Aragüés Copyright 2027
312 Pages
by Routledge

This volume presents a wide range of examples using Hegel's 'objective dialectic' as an interpretive key for understanding his philosophical work. It explores the potential of a strictly dialectical approach to central themes in Hegel's logic, philosophy of nature, and philosophy of spirit. The volume argues for taking contradiction seriously in Hegel's philosophy, understanding it in strictly... Read more

Introduction: Hegel’s Dialectic: Past, Present, and Prospects Edgar Maraguat  

  1. The Speculative Predicate in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit Gregory S. Moss  

  2. False and True Contradictions in Hegel: From Contradiction to Grounding Christian Spahn  

  3. Hegel’s Foundation of Mechanics: The Dialectic of Space, Time, and Matter Rafael Aragüés  

  4. Singularity and Life between the Science of Logic and the Philosophy of Nature Michela Bordignon  

  5. Actualizing the Dialectic of Reason and Nature in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit:   
    How to “Reread” Observing Reason as Speculative Phenomenology of Nature Jennifer Ann Bates  

  6. Habit or the Broken Circle of Nature and Spirit Berta M. Pérez  

  7. Reading Hegel Dialectically on Abstract Right, Morality, and Ethical Life Edgar Maraguat  

  8. The Highest Recognition of Our Spirit’s Majesty: The Right of Pardon as a True Contradiction Stefan Schick  

  9. Hegel’s Dialectical Critique of the Nation-State Arash Abazari  

  10. Dialectics between Logic and Politics Elena Ficara  

List of Contributors  

Index

Biography

Edgar Maraguat is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Valencia. He is the author of a study on teleology in Hegel’s logic: True Purposes in Hegel’s Logic (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and the editor of a volume on Hegel’s logic in Spanish, La Lógica de Hegel (Pre-Textos, 2017). 

Rafael Aragüés is Adjunct Lecturer at the Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid. He is the author of two monographs, Das Problem des Absoluten in der Philosophie Hegels (Wilhelm Fink, 2018) and Introducción a la Lógica de Hegel: fundamentos del idealismo hegeliano (Herder, 2021)