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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Translators’ Introduction
Negativity. A Confrontation with Hegel Approached from Negativity (1938–39, 1941)
I. Negativity. Nothing—abyss—beyng
1. On Hegel
(1) Clarification of a concern regarding the value of such a confrontation
(2) Specification of the conceptual language that comes into play in the confrontation
(3) Preliminary characterization of the standpoint and principle of Hegel’s philosophy
2. At a glance
3. Becoming
4. Negativity and the “nothing”
5. Negativity and being-other [Anderssein]
6. Negativity and otherness [Andersheit]
7. Negativity—difference of consciousness—subject-object relationship and essence of truth
8. Hegel’s concept of being
9. Hegel’s absolute negativity interrogated directly about its “origin”
10. Hegel’s negativity
11. Review
12. Negativity
13. The differentiation (separation)
14. The negative
15. Being and the nothing
16. Hegel’s concept of “being” in the narrow sense (“horizon” and “guiding thread”)
17. The “standpoint” of Hegelian philosophy is the standpoint of “absolute idealism”
18. The (thoughtful) pre-suppositions of Hegelian thinking
19. The pre-suppositions of Hegelian thinking of being in the narrow and broad sense
20. Review
21. The historical confrontation and the regress to “presuppositions”
II. The realm of inquiry of negativity
1. On the conceptual language
2. Negativity
3. Review
III. The differentiation of being and beings
1. Differentiation as de-cision
2. The differentiation of being and beings
IV. Clearing—Abyss—Nothing
1. The clearing (beyng)
2. Being: the a-byss
3. Beyng and nothing
4. A-byss and nothing and no
5. Beyng and nothing
6. “Negativity”
7. The nothing
V. Hegel
1. Essential considerations concerning the conceptual language
2. Hegel
3. “Becoming”
4. The pure thinking of thinking
5. “The higher standpoint”
6. Hegel’s “impact”
7. Metaphysics
8. On Hegel
9. “The logical beginning” (“pure being”)
Appendix
Supplement to the title page
Supplement to I, section 1 (p.3)
Elucidation of the “Introduction” to Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit” (1942)
Preliminary consideration. On the varied role and position of the Phenomenology of Spirit within Hegel’s metaphysics
I. The grounding of the enactment of the presentation of appearing knowledge (paragraphs 1–4 of the “Introduction”)
II. The self-presentation of appearing knowledge as the course into the truth of its own essence (paragraphs 5–8 of the “Introduction”)
III. The criterion of the examination and the essence of the examination in the course of appearing knowledge (paragraphs 9–13 of the “Introduction”)
1. The criterion-forming consciousness and the dialectical movement of the examination
2. Review of the previous discussion (I–III)
3. The experience [Er-fahren] of consciousness
IV. The essence of the experience of consciousness and its presentation (paragraphs 14–15 of the “Introduction”)
1. Hegel’s “ontological” concept of experience
2. Guiding propositions to Hegel’s concept of experience
V. Absolute metaphysics (sketches for paragraph 16 of the “Introduction”)
1. Essential considerations. Objectness and “science”
2. At a glance 1
3. The ray of the absolute. At a glance 2
4. The phenomenology of spirit
5. The movement
6. The by-play [Bei-her-spielen]
7. The examination
8. The onto-theological character
9. The reversal
10. The Germans and metaphysics
11. The absolute and man
12. Reflection—counter push—reversal
13. Projection and reversal
14. Experiences as transcendental experiences
15. The metaphysics of Schelling and Hegel
16. “Phenomenology” and absoluteness
17. Confrontation with Hegel
18. Hegel (Conclusion)
Appendix. Supplements to I–IV (paragraphs 1–15 of the “Introduction”)
1. Dialectic
2. Our contribution [Zu-tat]
3. The reversal—properly speaking four essential moments
4. The experience as the essential midpoint of consciousness
Editor’s Afterword
Translators’ Notes
German-English Glossary
English-German Glossary
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