Abstract

A highly competent and technical analysis of the historical and theoretical bases of Hegel's ontology. The first of the book's three sections gives an account of the importance, the history, and the present state of the study of Hegel's philosophy. The second and main section represents an attempt to elicit from Hegel's own texts the basic ontological concepts that form the starting point of the dialectical movement towards the completed metaphysical system. The third section attempts to reach an adequate interpretation of the starting point of Hegel's ontology by bringing together the conclusions of the previous sections. A fine bibliography as well as a number of diagrams and a résumé Français at the end may be of interest and use to those, because they do not know Dutch, are forced to forego the main text of this book.--A. F.