Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity

By Andrew Haas

At the center of Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity is the question: what could the term "multiplicity" mean for philosophy? Andrew Haas contends that most contemporary philosophical understandings of multiplicity are either Aristotelian or Kantian and that these approaches have solidified into a philosophy guided by categories of identity and different--categories to which multiplicity as such cannot be reduced. The Hegelian conception of multiplicity, Haas suggests, is opposed to both categories--or, in fact, supersedes them. To come to terms with this critique, Haas undertakes a rigorous, technical analysis of Hegel's Science of Logic. The result is a reading of the concept of multiplicity as multiple, that is, as multiplicities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810116693
• ISBN13: 9780810116696
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 355 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"