Real Process: How Logic and Chemistry Combine in Hegel's Philosophy of Nature

Hegel's Philosophy of Nature has for a long time been regarded as a somewhat outdated curiosity. Burbidge (philosophy, Trent U.) argues for the significance of the book as an intermediate movement in Hegel's system, looking specifically at three works: the two chapters of the Science of Logic that deal with the concept of chemism, and the section on chemical process in the Philosophy of Nature . Burbidge also sets Hegel's thought in context with sketches of what Kant, Fichte, and Schelling had to say about chemistry; provides background on the stage chemistry had reached at the time Hegel was writing; and shows how Hegel changed his mind as he revised succeeding editions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.