Table of Contents

Introduction: The Fundamentality of the Metaphysics of Reason
Part I: Primitive and Mediate Reasons: Immanent Concepts from Mechanism to Teleology
Chapter 1: The Dialectic of Mechanism
Chapter 2: Against Empiricist Metaphysics and for the Concept Thesis and the Metaphysics of Reason
Chapter 3: Kant's Challenge and Hegel's Defense of Natural Teleology:
The Concept as the Substance of Life
Part II: The Inescapable Problem of Complete Reasons:
Kant's Dialectic Critique of Metaphysics
Chapter 4: Kant's Dialectic Argument and the Restriction of Knowledge
Chapter 5: The Opening for Hegel's Response to Kant's Dialectic
Part III: Complete Reasons: From the Idea to the Absolute Idea
Chapter 6: Against the Metaphysics of the Understanding and the Final Subject or Substratum
Chapter 7: Insubstantial Holism and the Real Contradiction of the Lawful:
Chemism
Chapter 8: The Idea
Chapter 9: Free Kind for Itself: From the Metaphysics of the Absolute Idea to Epistemological Monism and Idealism
Chapter 10: Conclusion of the Logic:
Dialectic, Contradiction, and Absolute Knowledge
Index

About the Author

James Kreines is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, in Claremont, California. He teaches and writes about the history of metaphysics, especially in Kant and Hegel. Future research topics include metaphilosophy, and Kant's things in themselves.

Reviews

"...he offers a book that will surprise both seasoned Hegel hands with the order and connection of its arguments and contemporary metaphysicians with the cogency of those arguments on their own playing field...Kreines' book marks an important step forward for understanding Hegel's theoretical philosophy. In clearly framing the import of Hegel's conceptual innovations by placing them against the background of options in modern metaphysics, Kreines continues his
contributions towards the cultivation of a productive space for debate about the metaphysical significance of Hegel's thought." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
"A review cannot do full justice to the details of Kreines' arguments and the extent to which he brings Hegel into dialogue with contemporary philosophy...Much may and should be added to the defense of Hegel against contemporary objections. Kreines' book, however, makes a big step toward reconstructing Hegelian metaphysics and giving it renewed vitality." -- Philosophy in Review
"...its value is secured by the remarkable clarity, thoroughness, and insight with which it has rearranged, reexamined, and reinterpreted an important constellation of Hegelian terms, arguments, and approaches-and also by its promise to bring Hegel into play in contemporary metaphysics. I strongly recommend it to anyone who already has, or should cultivate, an interest in Hegel, his era, or our own." -- Journal of the History of Philosophy