Hegel's Philosophy of Language

by Vernon, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780826494382
• ISBN10: 0826494382
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Explores the development of Hegel's linguistics across the full range of his key writings.

Author Biography

Jim Vernon is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at York University, Canada.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
The Problematics of Language	p. 2
Secondary Literature on Hegel's Theory of Language	p. 17
The Framework of Hegelian Linguistics	p. 33
Grammar and Logic	p. 33
Grammar and Linguistic 'Alienation'	p. 38
The Framework of Hegel's Philosophy of Language	p. 43
The Acquisition of Lexical Content	p. 46
From Intuition to Representation	p. 47
Recollection (Erinnerung)	p. 49
Imagination (Einbildungskraft)	p. 54
From Representation to Signification	p. 58
The Acquisition of Linguistic Content	p. 64
The Problem with Sound	p. 66
Memory and Thinking	p. 73
The Deduction of Logical Grammar	p. 82
The Individual and its Determination	p. 83
The Judgment of Existence	p. 85
The Judgment of Reflection	p. 92
The Judgment of Necessity	p. 95
The Judgment of the Concept	p. 97
Inference, or the Syllogism in General	p. 101
The Syllogism of Existence	p. 102
The Syllogism of Reflection	p. 106
The Syllogism of Necessity	p. 110
The Linguistic Expression of Thought	p. 115
Hegel's Philosophy of Language in Outline	p. 115
The Speculative Sentence	p. 118
Language and Inter-subjective Objectivity	p. 122
Language and Speculative Philosophy	p. 130
Notes	p. 134
Bibliography	p. 151
Texts by Hegel	p. 151
Other Works	p. 151
Index	p. 159
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