The Doctrine of Being in Hegels Science of Logic A Critical Commentary [Paperback]

This book provides an accessible and thorough analysis of The Doctrine of Being, the first part of Hegels Science of Logic. Though it received much scholarly attention in the past, interpreters of this text have generally refrained from examining it in a sufficiently detailed manner.  Through a rigorous and critical reading of Hegels speculative arguments, Mehmet Tabak illustrates that Hegel meant his logic to be both a presuppositionless analysis and development of the basic categories of thought, on the one hand, and a post-Kantian ontology on the other. However, the analysis of the text demonstrates that Hegel fails to deliver such logic. This volume promises to be an indispensable guide to those who wish to understand the first book of Science of Logic.  

Chapter One: Introduction 
Chapter Two: Being
Chapter Three: Determinate Being
Chapter Four: Being-for-itself
Chapter Five: Quantity
Chapter Six: Quantum
Chapter Seven: The Quantitative Relation
Chapter Eight: Specific Quantity
Chapter Nine: Real Measure
Chapter Ten: The Becoming of Essence

Mehmet Tabak is the author of Dialectics of Human Nature in Marxs Philosophy, Dialectic in Hegels History of Philosophy, Vol. 1, and Platos Parmenides Reconsidered. He is an adjunct professor at New York University, USA.

This book provides an accessible and thorough analysis of The Doctrine of Being, the first part of Hegels Science of Logic. Though it received much scholarly attention in the past, interpreters of this text have generally refrained from examining it in a sufficiently detailed manner.  Through a rigorous and critical reading of Hegels speculative argumenlÃ