Hegel on Being

Stephen Houlgate is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. He has been teaching Hegel’s Logic for over 30 years and is the author of several works on Hegel including An Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy: Freedom, Truth and History, 2nd Ed. (2005) and The Opening of Hegel's Logic (2006). He has served as the President of the Hegel Society of Great Britain since 2011.

Volume I: Quality and the Birth of Quantity in Hegel's 'Science of Logic'

Preface
Note on the Texts
Note on References and Abbreviations
List of Abbreviations

Part 1 The Purpose and Method of Hegel’s Logic

Chapter 1. Categories, Language and Metaphysics
Chapter 2. Hegel’s Critique of Kant
Chapter 3. Logic without Presuppositions: the Beginning
Chapter 4. The Method of Speculative Logic
Chapter 5. Logic and Metaphysics

Part 2 Quality

Chapter 6. Being, Nothing, Becoming
Chapter 7. Determinate Being (Dasein)
Chapter 8. Something and Other
Chapter 9. Being-in-itself and Being-for-other
Chapter 10. Limit and Finitude
Chapter 11. The Finite and the Infinite
Chapter 12. Being-for-self, and the One and the Many

Part 3 Quantity
Chapter 13. From Quality to Quantity
Chapter 14. Quantity and Divisibility
Chapter 15. Excursus: Hegel, Kant and the Antinomies
Chapter 16. Excursus: Hegel and Kant’s Second Antinomy

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Volume II: Quantity and Measure in Hegel's 'Science of Logic'

Preface to Volume II
Note on References and Abbreviations
List of Abbreviations

Part 1 Quantum, Number and the Quantitative Ratio

Chapter 1. Quantum and Number
Chapter 2. Excursus: Hegel on the Operations of Arithmetic
Chapter 3. Excursus: Hegel and Frege — Similarities and Differences
Chapter 4. Excursus: Frege’s Assumptions
Chapter 5. Excursus: Hegel and Frege on Number
Chapter 6. Extensive and Intensive Magnitude
Chapter 7. Quantitative Infinity
Chapter 8. Excursus: Hegel and Kant’s First Antinomy
Chapter 9. The Quantitative Relation or Ratio (Verhältnis)
Chapter 10. Hegel on Differential Calculus

Part 2 Measure

Chapter 11. Specific Quantity
Chapter 12. Real Measure
Chapter 13. The Nodal Line and the Measureless
Chapter 14. Indifference
Chapter 15. From Measure to Essence
Chapter 16. Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index