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John Burbidge shows that, far from incorporating everything into an all-consuming necessity, Hegel's philosophy requires the novelty of unexpected contingencies to maintain its systematic pretensions. To know without fear of failure is to expect that experience will confound our confident claims to knowledge. And the universal character of all life involves acting, discovering what happens as a result, and incorporating both intention and result into a new comprehensive understanding. Burbidge explores how Hegel applied this approach when he turned from his logic to chemistry, biology, psychology and history, and suggests how a Hegelian might function within the changed circumstances of contemporary science.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Hegel's Systematic Contingency
• Author: John W. Burbidge
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 219
• EAN: 9780230527522
• ISBN: 0230527523
• ID: 04554951
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 420 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. May 2007

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