Contradiction In Motion Hegels Organic Concept Of Life And Value Songsuk Susan Hahn by Songsuk Susan Hahn 9781501731143, 1501731149 instant download after payment.

In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant highlights the contradictions into which reason falls when it ignores its limits, when it seeks knowledge of objects that transcend the realm of experience. Hegel praises Kant’s recognition of the natural and inevitable antinomies or contradictions of reason, but he also finds Kant’s treatment of contradiction too ‘subjective’. For Hegel, contradiction is not just a fallacy of reason; contradiction is in everything. Contradiction is in nature, in works of art, in practical agency, and in our concepts.
Songsuk Susan Hahn’s main task in Contradiction in Motion is to illuminate Hegel’s doctrine of contradiction. Her project is motivated by the accurate observation that, ‘Contradiction is a deeply embedded feature of Hegel’s organic holism, with roots digging down deeply into his dialectical method and spreading to all parts of his System’ (p. 54). Hahn is well aware that, for the most part, the reception of Hegel’s doctrine of contradiction has not been favourable. She reviews some of the standard criticisms (by Popper, Russell, and others) in her third chapter. Her bold ambition, however, is to present this bewildering Hegelian doctrine in a sympathetic light. She does so with intelligence and insight.