Hegel and the Problem of the History of Philosophy

<b>Drawing on the work of major philosophers in 18th and 19th-century German idealism Thomas Raysmith critically examines G. W. F. Hegel's justification for the claim that philosophy has a history.<br/> <br/></b>While Kant regarded philosophy as ahistorical Hegel considered it to be a discipline that is necessarily historical and elaborated a 'logical structure' that was supposed to allow it to have a history. Calling this structure which Hegel took to be the fundamental structure of thought itself 'the structure of exemplarity' Raysmith presents it as a dynamic reciprocity between universality particularity and singularity. He provides a historical reconstruction of the shifting conceptions of philosophy from Kant through J. G. Fichte and F. W. J. Schelling to Hegel and offers a systematic analysis of Hegel's <i>Science of Logic</i>based on a close critical reading.<br/> <br/> Offering a compelling and novel reading of Hegel's thought <i>Hegel and the Problem of the History of Philosophy</i>is a groundbreaking work for students and scholars of German idealism and the history of philosophy more broadly.