NDLI: Hegel’s logic of finitude

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Author	Zambrana, Rocío
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	In “Violence and Metaphysics” Jacques Derrida suggests that “the only effective position to take in order not to be enveloped by Hegel would seem to be…to consider false-infinity…irreducible.” Inversely, refuting the charge of logocentrism associated with Hegelian true infinity (wahrhafte Unendlichkeit) would involve showing that Hegel’s speculative logic does not establish the infinity of being exempt from the negativity of the finite. This paper takes up Derrida’s challenge, and argues that true infinity is crucial to Hegel’s understanding of ideality as a question of normative authority, which does not fall prey to logocentrism. Through an exposition of the dialectic of the finite and the infinite in Hegel’s Science of Logic, I argue that true infinity is not an ontological category that eliminates division, but rather refers to the metalogical standpoint involved in a philosophical account of determinacy. Although fully achieved at the end of the Logic, the metalogical standpoint that Hegel elaborates in the Seinslogik under the banner of the true infinite already clarifies that determinacy is a product of normative authority that is itself precarious.
Starting Page	213
Ending Page	233
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13872842
Journal	Continental Philosophy Review
Volume Number	45
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15731103
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-03-29
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Hegel True infinity Bad infinity Idealism Absolute Idea Science of Logic Logocentrism Political Philosophy Phenomenology Philosophy of Man
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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