Real Words : : Language and System in Hegel / / Jeffrey Reid.

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• VerfasserIn: Reid, Jeffrey,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
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There exists a very particular grasp of the relation between language and objectivity in the work of G.W.F. Hegel (1770?1831), one that rejects the idea of truth as the reflection between words and what they represent.Jeffrey Reid?s Real Words is an examination of Hegel?s notion of scientific language (i.e. the language of his system) and its implications to a type of discourse that is itself true objectivity. Hegel sees scientific logos as real, actual, and true, where there is no distance between signifier and signified and where the word is the effective thing. The words of Hegel?s system are meant to be objective: they ?take place? in the world; they are not the arbitrary constructions of the individual philosopher. This concept of language is only possible through the idea of content, real words that actually embody the truth of nature, history, law, art and philosophy itself. Real Words presents an original way of understanding one of the most important philosophers in the Western tradition.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Objective Discourse of Science -- 2. The Ontological Grasp of Judgment -- 3. Why Hegel Didn't Join the 'Kant-Klub': Reason and Speculative Discourse -- 4. The Fiery Crucible, Yorick's Skull, and Leprosy in the Sky: The Language of Nature (with a Concluding Unscientific Postscriptum) -- 5. Presenting the Past: Hegel's Epistemological Historiography -- 6. The State University: The University of Berlin and Its Founding Contradictions -- 7. Music and Monosyllables: The Language of Pleasure and Necessity -- 8. Hegel's Critique of Solger: The Problem of Scientific Communication -- 9. On Schleiermacher and Postmodernity -- Last Words -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index