Hegel and Language

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The first anthology explicitly dedicated to Hegel's linguistic thought, Hegel and Language presents various facets of a new wave of Hegel scholarship. The chapters are organized around themes that include the possibility of systematic philosophy, truth and objectivity, and the relation of Hegel's thought to analytic and postmodern approaches to language. While there is considerable diversity among the various approaches to and assessments of Hegel's linguistic thought, the volume as a whole demonstrates that not only was language central for Hegel, but also that his linguistic thought still has much to offer contemporary philosophy. The book also includes an extensive introductory survey of the linguistic thought of the entire German Idealist movement and the contemporary issues that emerged from it.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Jere O’Neill Surber

SECTION 1 Language and the Possibility of Systematic Philosophy

1. Fragmentation, Contamination, Systematicity: The Threats of Representation and the Immanence of Thought
Kevin Thompson

2. Language and Metaphysics: The Dialectics of Hegel’s Speculative Proposition
Chong-Fuk Lau

3. The Language of Hegel’s Speculative Philosophy
Angelica Nuzzo

SECTION 2 Language, Subjectivity, and “Objective Truth”

4. Objective Language and Scientific Truth in Hegel
Jeffrey Reid

5. Sound—Tone—Word: Toward an Hegelian Philosophy of Language
John McCumber

6. Telling the Truth: Systematic Philosophy and the Aufhebung of Poetic and Religious Language
Will Dudley

SECTION 3 Hegel and Contemporary Philosophy of Language and Linguistics

7. Language, Objects, and the Missing Link: Toward a Hegelian Theory of Reference
Katharina Dulckeit

8. The Realm of Abstraction: The Role of Grammar in Hegel’s Linguistic System
Jim Vernon

9. The Logic of Language Change
David Kolb

SECTION 4 Postmodern Perspectives on Hegel’s Linguistic Views

10. The Three Hegels: Kojéve, Hyppolite, and Derrida on Hegel’s Philosophy of Language
Catherine Kellogg

11. Hegel, Kristeva, and the Language of Revolution
Claire May

12. Speculative Rhythm
Katrin Pahl

Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Philosophy

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791481769
• Langue: English
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HEGEL AND LANGUAGE

Edited by JERE O’NEILL SURBER

Kevin Thompson

ChongFuk Lau

Angelica Nuzzo

Jeffrey Reid

John McCumber Will Dudley Katharina Dulckeit Jim Vernon David Kolb

Catherine Kellogg Claire May Katrin Pahl

Hegel and Language

SUNY series in Hegelian Studies William Desmond, editor

Hegel and Language

Edited by Jere O’Neill Surber

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Hegel and language / edited by Jere O'Neill Surber. p. cm. — (SUNY series in Hegelian studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6755-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770–1831. 2. Language and languages— Philosophy. I. Surber, Jere Paul. II. Series.

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Acknowledgments

C O N T E N T S

Introduction Jere O’Neill Surber

SECTION 1

Language and the Possibility of Systematic Philosophy

1 Fragmentation, Contamination, Systematicity: The Threats of Representation and the Immanence of Thought Kevin Thompson

2 Language and Metaphysics: The Dialectics of Hegel’s Speculative Proposition Chong-Fuk Lau

3 The Language of Hegel’s Speculative Philosophy Angelica Nuzzo

SECTION 2

Language, Subjectivity, and “Objective Truth”

4 Objective Language and Scientific Truth in Hegel Jeffrey Reid

5 Sound—Tone—Word: Toward an Hegelian Philosophy of Language John McCumber

6 Telling the Truth: Systematic Philosophy and the Aufhebungof Poetic and Religious Language Will Dudley

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Hegel and Contemporary Philosophy of Language and Linguistics

The Realm of Abstraction: The Role of Grammar in Hegel’s Linguistic System Jim Vernon

Language, Objects, and the Missing Link: Toward a Hegelian Theory of Reference Katharina Dulckeit

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The Logic of Language Change David Kolb

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Contributors

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Speculative Rhythm Katrin Pahl

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Index

The Three Hegels: Kojéve, Hyppolite, and Derrida on Hegel’s Philosophy of Language Catherine Kellogg

Hegel, Kristeva, and the Language of Revolution Claire May

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SECTION 4

Postmodern Perspectives on Hegel’s Linguistic Views

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

This collection of essays originated in conjunction with the Hegel Society of America’s Seventeenth Biennial Meeting on “Hegel and Language,” held at the Pennsylvania State University, October 25–27, 2002. Most of the essays have undergone subsequent development and revision as a result of discus- sions at that meeting. The editor wishes to thank the contributors to this vol- ume as well as the officers and membership of the Hegel Society of America for making this project possible. He would also, in particular, like to thank three of his graduate research assistants: David Hale and Jason Flato for their assistance with the initial editing of the essays included here, and Evgeni V. Pavlov for his crucial contributions toward both the final editing of the essays and assistance with several aspects of the introduction and other matters per- taining to this volume. Finally, he is indebted to Cheryl Ward on several scores: for her final proofreading of the manuscript; for her work on the index; and, most of all, for her sustaining support and encouragement from the con- ception to the conclusion of this project.

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Introduction

Jere O’Neill Surber

The historical period that witnessed the rise of Kantian philosophy, German Idealist thought, and Romanticism was also the seminal era of modern lin- guistics and the philosophy of language. Both on the face of it and for numer- ous more complicated reasons, it would be surprising if those wide-ranging systematic thinkers of this period were not themselves concerned with lin- guistic issues as a crucial dimension of their overall philosophical projects. As a substantial amount of scholarship over the last thirty years or so has quite 1 firmly established, this was in fact the case. What remains surprising is not that these thinkers of the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries gave serious and sustained attention to matters linguistic, but that later scholars for so long paid so little attention to this important dimension of the thought of this period. In particular, the much heralded and allegedly novel “linguistic turn” of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries (both, one might add, in the “analytic” and “Continental” traditions), either through historical igno- rance or willful neglect, missed a significant opportunity to link itself with and situate itself in relation to what might well be regarded as the “original lin- guistic turn” of the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. More recently, however, some of these historical and conceptual lacunae have begun to be filled in, so that today it is no longer possible seriously to claim, for instance, that the German Idealist philosophers were simply “linguistically naïve,” or that the twentieth century’s alleged “linguistic turn” was unprecedented in the history of philosophy. Both historically and conceptually, this recent “discovery” of linguistic issues as important and fundamental to the philosophical tradition of Kant and the German Idealists commenced with new approaches to the systematic philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel. From the realization not only of the quantity but of the fecundity of Hegel’s reflections on language throughout his philo- sophical development, scholars have more recently been led to trace, in a sort

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