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This book offers the first genuinely systematic treatment of Hegel's eschatology in the literature. It is an investigation into Hegel's project to demonstrate the ultimate unity of thought and being (consciousness and reality, self and world). The author traces the project through Hegel's epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of history.
The grand synthesis creates a basic tension, an ambivalence, that reaches its most acute formulation in Hegel's eschatological language of a final completion or fulfillment of history. This conflicts with his dialectic and Heracletian metaphysics of becoming. Berthold-Bond concludes that a substantially new approach to Hegel's eschatology is needed.
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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Hegel's Theory of Truth
1. Truth as a Temporal, Historical Event
a. Hegel and Frege: Truth and Thought
b. The Principle of Development
c. The Principle of Concretion
d. The Question of Relativism
2. The "Agency" of Truth
a. Hegel and Heidegger: The Anthropocentric Interpretation of Truth
b. Hegel's Panlogistic Interpretation of Truth
c. Hegel's Attempted Synthesis of Anthropomorphism and Panlogism
3. The Criterion of Truth: Hegel's Twist on the Correspondence Theory
Chapter Three: The "Riddle and Problem" of Knowledge
1. The Problem Itself
2. Hegel's Solution to the Problem
a. Criticisms of Kant
i. The Kantian Critical Philosophy as Scepticism
ii. The Basic Issue: Is Alteration a Distortion?
iii. The Ding an sich as Caput Mortuum
b. Hegel's Positive Solution
i. "Removing the Curtain"
ii. Hegel's Epistemological Criteriology
3. Hegel's Idealism
a. Kant's "Critical Idealism" and Fichte's "Subjective Idealism"
b. The "Overlapping" of Realism and Idealism
Chapter Four: Becoming and Dialectic
1. Hegel's Notion of Substance
a. The Influence of Aristotle
b. The Influence of Leibniz
c. The Influence of Heraclitus
2. The Nature of Becoming
a. "Mere Logical Becoming"
b. The Deeper Significance of Becoming
3. The Nature of Dialectic
a. Dialectic as Negativity
b. Dialectic as a Mode of Thought
Chapter Five: Hegel's Philosophic Method: The "Self-Construction of Reason"
1. Introductory Remarks on Method
2. Method and Reason
3. Method as Dialectic
a. Dialectic and the Dynamic Character of Thought
b. Dialectic and the Grand Synthesis: The Dovetailing of Categories of hought and Being
4. Method as Teleology
a. Teleology and System
b. Teleology and Circularity
Chapter Six: The Question of Completion: Hegel and Christian Eschatology
1. The Ambiguity
2. The Book of Revelation
3. Revelation and Reason
4. Hegel's Christian Eschatology and the Apocalyptic Vision of a "New World"
a. Suffering
b. The Curse
c. The "Tabernacle of God"
d. The "New World"
5. The Ambiguity Deepens
Chapte Seven: The Question of Completion: Hegel's Philosophic Eschatology
1. The "New World" Revisited
2. Evidence for the Epochal Reading of Hegel's Eschatology: Placing the New World" in Context
3. Pro and Con
4. Other Views
a. The Literal (Absolutist) Interpretation
b. Epochal Interpretations, Hesitant and Otherwise
c. Attempts at a Synthetic Interpretation
5. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Subject Index
Name Index