Approaching Hegel's logic, obliquely : Melville, Moliere, Beckett / Angelica Nuzzo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Thinking Transformation; Part I. Hegel's Logic of Transformation; Chapter 1 Thinking in Times of Crisis: Hegel's Logic of Transformation; Prelude: After the Crisis, Telling the Story; 1. From Today's Present to Hegel's Logic as a Logic of Transformative Processes; 2. Another Crisis: Times of Change and Hegel's Dialectic; 3. The "Need" for a Logic of Change; 4. Dialectic Is Movement: Zeno's Arrow and Heraclitus's Flux; 5. Dialectic-Speculative Logic: Understanding and the Power of Reason

6. Hegel's Dialectic-Speculative Logic: The Path for a ReconstructionChapter 2 From the Beginning to the End: What Is Method?; 1. The Nature of the Process: Determinate Negation and Immanence; 2. Logical Movement and Logical Action; 3. Method as the Enactment of Truth: Method Is Mythos; 4. Method: Beginning, Advancing, and Ending the Logical Action; 5. In the End Is the (Beginning of the) Story; Chapter 3 Forms and Figures; 1. Logical Action and Logical Agents; 2. Phenomenological and Logical Gestaltung: Logical Forms as "Figures"; 3. Logical Figures: Reality in the "Realm of Shadows."

Part II. Structures of Action: Logic and LiteratureChapter 4 Beginnings; Some Preliminary Remarks: The Synchronic Perspective, or Reading the Logic All Over Again; 1. Logical Beginnings: The Two Perspectives; 1.1. Enacting the Absolute Beginning: The Figure of Beginning in Being; 1.2. The Memory of the Beginning or Beginning-Again: The Figure of Beginning in Essence; 1.3. The Beginning of Freedom: The Figure of Beginning in the Concept; 2. Violence in the Beginning: Melville's Billy Budd; 2.1. The Logic of Violence: The Violence of Pure Immediacy-Being

2.2. The Logic of Violence: Violence Reflected2.3. The Logic of Violence: The Violence of Power and the Power of Love; 3. Transforming the Beginning; Chapter 5 Advancing: Transformations; Advancing-the Question; 1. Logical Advancements: The Two Perspectives; 1.1. Advancing Being: Acting in Search of Determination, or Dasein; 1.2. Advancing Essence: Acting in/as the Middle by Returning Back to Oneself, or Gesetztsein; 1.3. Advancing the Concept, by Judging: Crisis and Stasis; 2. Advancing Beyond Fanaticism: Molière's Tartuffe

2.1. The Logic of Fanaticism: Advancing Despite Oneself-The Absolutism of Being or Moral Conscience2.2. The Logic of Fanaticism: Advancing Despite Oneself-The Hypocrisy of Essence; 2.3. The Logic of Fanaticism: Advancing Through the Crisis-Judging; 3. Transforming the Advancement; Appendix: "Living in the Interregnum"; Chapter 6 Endings; 1. Logical Endings: The Two Perspectives; 1.1. Ending Being, an Infinite Postponement: Going Back by Becoming Essence; 1.2. Ending Essence: Reclaiming One's Own End (Before and Against the Concept); 1.3. The Idea, Ending: Knowing When to Stop

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