Abstract

In this book Berthold-Bond sets himself two main tasks. First, he attempts to describe a central ambiguity, or “unresolved conflict,” between Hegel’s descriptions of “inherently teleological processes of becoming” and his equally compelling “commitment to a closure of becoming”. His second task is to propose a “synthesis” of these two general aspects of the Hegelian system. These two topics must be kept separate in order to highlight the difficulties involved in maintaining the conflict and the synthesis.