PLEASE NOTE this is a sample reading list for the 2015-16 academic year
– precise seminar content may change from year to year.
Primary Text
Hegel's Science of Logic, trans. A.V. Miller (New York: Humanity Books, 1999), or:
The Hegel Reader, ed. S. Houlgate (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), pp. 127-211.
Also Recommended
G.W.F. Hegel, The Encyclopaedia Logic. Part 1 of the Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences with the
Zusätze, trans. T.F. Geraets, W.A. Suchting and H.S. Harris (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1991).
G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on Logic. Berlin, 1831, trans. C. Butler (Bloomington IN: Indiana University
Press, 2008).
G.W.F. Hegel, Werke in zwanzig Bänden, eds. E. Moldenhauer and K.M. Michel (Frankfurt am Main:
Suhrkamp Verlag, 1969ff) [Vols. 5 & 6: Wissenschaft der Logik; Vol. 8: Enzyklopädie I: Wissenschaft
der Logik].
Secondary Texts
J. Biard et al., eds. Introduction à la lecture de La Science de la Logique de Hegel. I. L'Etre (Paris:
Aubier,
1981).
J. Burbidge, On Hegel's Logic. Fragments of A Commentary (New York: Humanity Books, 1999).
J. Burbidge, The Logic of Hegel's Logic (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2006).
C. Butler, Hegel’s Logic. Between Dialectic and History (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press,
1996).
D.G. Carlson, A Commentary to Hegel’s Science of Logic (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
A. Doz, La logique de Hegel et les problèmes traditionnels de l'ontologie (Paris: J. Vrin, 1987).
G. di Giovanni, ed., Essays on Hegel's Logic (Albany: SUNY Press,1990).
J.N. Findlay, Hegel. A Re-examination (1958) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976).
H.-G. Gadamer, “The Idea of Hegel's Logic”, in Hegel's Dialectic, trans. P.C. Smith (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1976).
E.E. Harris, An Interpretation of the Logic of Hegel (Lanham: University Press of America, 1983).
K. Hartmann, “Hegel: A Non-metaphysical View”, in Hegel: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. A.
MacIntyre (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972).
J. Hartnack, An Introduction to Hegel’s Logic (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998).
D. Henrich, “Anfang und Methode der Logik”, in Hegel im Kontext, 4th ed. (Frankfurt am Main:
Suhrkamp
Verlag, 1971).
S. Houlgate, Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press,
1986).
S. Houlgate, An Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy. Freedom, Truth and History (1991) (Oxford:
Blackwell,
2005).
S. Houlgate, “Absolute Knowing Revisited”, The Owl of Minerva 30, 1 (Fall 1998): 51-67.
S. Houlgate, The Opening of Hegel's Logic. From Being to Infinity (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue
University
Press, 2006).
S. Houlgate, “Hegel’s Logic”, in The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century
Philosophy, ed.
F. Beiser (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 111-34.
S. Houlgate and M. Baur, eds. A Companion to Hegel (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), chapters 5, 6,
7.
J. Hyppolite, Logic and Existence, trans. L. Lawlor and A. Sen (Albany NY: SUNY Press, 1997).
P.O. Johnson, The Critique of Thought. A Re-examination of Hegel's Science of Logic (Aldershot:
Avebury,
1988).
A.F. Koch and F. Schick, eds. Wissenschaft der Logik (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002).
A.F. Koch, F. Schick, K. Vieweg and C. Wirsing, eds. Hegel — 200 Jahre Wissenschaft der Logik (Felix
Meiner: Hamburg, 2014).
D. Kolb, The Critique of Pure Modernity. Hegel, Heidegger and After (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press,
1986).
J. Kreines, Reason in the World. Hegel’s Metaphysics and its Philosophical Appeal (Oxford: OUP,
2015).
Bernhard Lakebrink, Kommentar zu Hegels “Logik” in seiner “Enzyklopädie” von 1830. Band I: Sein
und
Wesen (Freiburg/München: Verlag Karl Alber, 1979).
B. Longuenesse, Hegel’s Critique of Metaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
W. Maker, Philosophy Without Foundations. Rethinking Hegel (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994).
J.M.E. McTaggart, A Commentary on Hegel's Logic (New York: Russell and Russell, 1910, 1964).
G.R.G. Mure, A Study of Hegel's Logic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950).
R. Pippin, Hegel's Idealism. The Satisfactions of Self-consciousness (Cambridge: Cambridge
University
Press, 1989).
Giacomo Rinaldi, A History and Interpretation of the Logic of Hegel (Lewiston NY: The Edwin Mellen
Press,
1992).
F.W.J. Schelling, On the History of Modern Philosophy, trans. A. Bowie (Cambridge: Cambridge
University
Press, 1994).
S. Sedgwick, ed. The Reception of Kant's Critical Philosophy. Fichte, Schelling, & Hegel (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000).
S. Sedgwick, Hegel’s Critique of Kant (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
R. Stern, Hegel, Kant and the Structure of the Object (New York: Routledge, 1990).
R Stern, ed. G.W.F. Hegel. Critical Assessments, 4 vols (London: Routledge, 1993).
W.T. Stace, The Philosophy of Hegel (New York: Dover Publications, 1924, 1955).
C. Taylor, Hegel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975).
M. Theunissen, Sein und Schein. Die kritische Funktion der Hegelschen Logik (Frankfurt am Main:
Suhrkamp Verlag, 1980).
A. White, Absolute Knowledge: Hegel and the Problem of Metaphysics (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University
Press,
1983).
R. Winfield, Reason and Justice (Albany: Suny Press, 1988).
R. Winfield, Hegel’s Science of Logic. A Critical Rethinking in Thirty Lectures (Lanham: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2012).