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The company of words : Hegel, language, and systematic philosophy

Title
  1. The company of words : Hegel, language, and systematic philosophy / John McCumber.
Published by
  1. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1993.
Author
  1. McCumber, John.

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Description
  1. xx, 442 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. The author asks us to undertand Hegel's system as a new approach to human linguistic communication. Hegel, he argues, is concerned with building community and mutual comprehension rather than with completing metaphysics or developing historical critique. Hegel constructs a complex ideal of how we should use certain words. This ideal philosophical vocabulary is flexible and open to revision, and is constructed according to principles available at all times and all places, it is responsive to, but not dictated by, the shared language of cultured discourse whose concepts it attempts to refine and universalize. Systematic philosophy is thus a temporal process in which participants gain the words they can use to understand each other: in which they create for themselves and for their community a company of words. -- Back cover.
Series statement
  1. Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy
Uniform title
  1. Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.
Subject
  1. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831
  2. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831
  3. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
  4. Language and languages > Philosophy
  5. Knowledge, Theory of
  6. epistemology
  7. Erkenntnistheorie
  8. Sprachphilosophie
  9. Systemdenken
  10. Taalfilosofie
Contents
  1. pt. I. Truth as Systematicity -- 1. Hegelian Truth: Analysis -- 2. Hegelian Truth: Demarcation -- 3. Hegelian Truth: Narrative -- pt. 2. Dialectics -- 4. Hegelian Thought: Analysis -- 5. Hegelian Thought: Demarcation -- 6. Hegelian Thought: Narrative -- pt. 3. A Philosophy of Words -- 7. Hegelian Words: Analysis -- 8. Hegelian Words: Demarcation -- 9. Hegelian Words: Narrative -- pt. 4. The Dynamics of Philosophical Expression -- 10. The Expression of the System: Analysis -- 11. The Expression of the System: Demarcation -- 12. The Expression of the System: Narrative.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.