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Book Synopsis"Everything is contradictory," Hegel declares in Science of Logic. In this analysis of one of the most difficult and neglected topics in Hegelian studies, Songsuk Susan Hahn tackles the status of contradiction in Hegel's thought. Properly...
Trade Review"In Contradiction in Motion, Songsuk Susan Hahn provides some well-informed and thoughtful responses to standard attempts to interpret Hegel on contradiction. Hahn has her finger on the pulse of Hegel scholarship, and this is a timely book, as well as one taking on an old and difficult problem in some refreshing ways. It should have a significant and beneficial influence on lively discussions of Hegel." -- Allen Wood, Stanford University, author of
Kant and Kant's Ethical Thought"This is an interesting, suggestive, and well-conceived book that interrelates a number of important and, to a significant extent, neglected topics in the recent renaissance in Anglophone Hegel studies. Songsuk Susan Hahn links the theme of contradiction in Hegel to his philosophy of nature and then engages with Hegel's treatment of the cognitive dimension of tragic drama and issues of ethics and agency." -- Paul Redding, The University of Sydney, author of
Hegel's Hermeneutics and The Logic of Affect
