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Jacob McNulty, Hegel’s Logic and Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 264pp., $32.99 (pbk)., ISBN 9781009068284.
Reviewed by Clinton Tolley, University of California San Diego
1. Introduction
Jacob McNulty’s Hegel’s Logic and Metaphysics is a great contribution to the lively and ongoing debates about how best to interpret Hegel’s conception of logic, in light of the place that Hegel assigns to logic in his own philosophical system, as well as in light of his relation to earlier traditions in the philosophy of logic. McNulty’s book is fluidly written, well-organized, and admirably readable (despite containing a considerable number of typographical errors), and is broadly successful in putting forward a new, genuinely distinctive, decidedly ‘metaphysical’ approach to Hegel’s main writings on logic.
Throughout his book, McNulty engages with many leading figures in the interpretive debates surrounding Hegel’s logic, including Karin de Boer, Brady Bowman, Klaus Düsing, Stephen Houlgate, Franz Knappik, Anton Koch,…
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