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19Philosophie als Wissenschaft (review)Review of Metaphysics 37 (2): 431-432. 1983.Topp undertakes a difficult task. In preparation for a study of the logic inherent in Hegel's Philosophy of Right, he explores in a wide-ranging discussion the systematic character of Hegel's philosophy as a whole. Thus no single question structures the book. Its argument is developed under three themes.
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16Contingent CategoriesThe Owl of Minerva 40 (1): 115-131. 2008.By comparing the argument in the first edition of Hegel’s Science of Logic with that of the second we find that he not only introduces significant changes but indicates why he found the changes necessary. As over time he rethought his method in the course of his annual lectures he realised that pure thought should not anticipate results but follow from the inherent sense of each term. The details of his logical method suggest how the novelties that emerge in history can require the introduction …Read more
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15An Interpretation of the Logic of Hegel (review)Idealistic Studies 16 (2): 159-161. 1986.The Logic interpreted by Professor Harris is the Encyclopaedia Logic translated by Wallace. He goes through it chapter by chapter and provides explanations of the various concepts and transitions, using references to the larger Logic, illustrations from the philosophy of nature, and anticipations of subsequent sections. His interpretation is essentially Spinozistic: the ultimate point of reference is the whole. And the dialectical development is the result of thought’s comparing its immediate co…Read more
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13In Memory of Emil Ludwig Fackenheim, 1916–2003The Owl of Minerva 35 (1-2): 49-52. 2003.At a time when Hegel studies were virtually non-existent in North America, Emil Fackenheim began teaching at the University of Toronto, in a department strongly committed to the history of philosophy. He taught medieval philosophy to third-year students in the honours program, and a course on metaphysics and the philosophy of history to students in fourth year honors, a combination of interests that found expression in his Aquinas Lectures of 1961: Metaphysics and Historicity. It was, however, h…Read more
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12Der Strukturgedanke in Hegels “Wissenschaft der Logik” (review)International Studies in Philosophy 21 (3): 146-147. 1989.
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11Hegel's systematic contingencyPalgrave-Macmillan. 2007.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 e…Read more
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11Katharina Comoth, Die Idee ah Ideal: Trias und Triplizität bei Hegel. Heidelberg, Carl Winter, 1985, pp. 90, DM 28.00Hegel Bulletin 8 (2): 50-51. 1987.
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9Wissenschaft der Logik. Teil 1 - Die Objektive Logik; Band 1 (review)The Owl of Minerva 18 (1): 67-68. 1986.No one who wants seriously to understand Hegel’s larger Logic can afford to ignore this volume of the collected works. It stands out from all other editions of the German text for two significant reasons.
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3Terry Pinkard, Hegel: A Biography , pp. xx + 780. ISBN 0-521-49679-9Hegel Bulletin 22 (1-2): 85-88. 2001.
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3Hegel and his Critics (review)The Owl of Minerva 22 (2): 227-228. 1991.The essays in this volume do more than simply conjoin Hegel with his critics. There is a full-fledged debate: on occasion the critics gain the upper hand; far more often Hegel rises from the dead to defeat, by anticipation, his opponents.
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2Hegel In His Time (edited book)Broadview Press. 1995.Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel is now recognized as one of the great philosophers; his concept of the dialectic profoundly influenced the course of Western thought, and—particularly through the lens of Marxist philosophy—continues to exert great influence even today. Yet Hegel himself has often been accused of being a philosopher of reaction: on the political sphere the polar opposite of Marx. It was not until the publication of Jacques D’Hondt’s Hegel en son temps that the vision of Hegel as a s…Read more
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12. Hegel in CanadaIn Susan M. Dodd & Neil G. Robertson (eds.), Hegel and Canada: Unity of Opposites?, University of Toronto Press. pp. 51-57. 2018.
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Philip T. Grier, ed., Dialectic and Contemporary Science: Essays in honor of Errol E. Harris Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 9 (12): 486-487. 1989.