Robert Stern is Professor of Philosophy at the University Sheffield. He came to the university in 1989, having been a graduate and Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge. He has published two books on Hegel, and is currently President of the Hegel Society of Great Britain.

There is no doubt that Stern is one of the best Hegel scholars currently around ... a remarkably competent and enormously resourceful analyst of what is living and dead in a metaphysical discourse which does not ostracize Hegel.

• Introduction: How is Hegelian Metaphysics Possible? ; PART ONE ; 1. Hegel's Idealism ; 2. Did Hegel Hold an Identity Theory of Truth? ; 3. Hegel's Doppelsatz: A Neutral Reading ; PART TWO ; 4. British Hegelianism: A Non-Metaphysical View? ; 5. Hegel, British Idealism, and the Curious Case of the Concrete Universal ; 6. Coherence as a Test for Truth ; PART THREE ; 7. Hegel and Pragmatism ; 8. Peirce on Hegel: Nominalist or Realist? ; 9. Peirce, Hegel and the Category of Secondness ; 10. Peirce, Hegel and the Category of Firstness ; 11. James and Bradley on Understanding ; PART FOUR ; 12. Individual Existence and the Philosophy of Difference

Robert Stern is Professor of Philosophy at the University Sheffield. He came to the university in 1989, having been a graduate and Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge. He has published two books on Hegel, and is currently President of the Hegel Society of Great Britain.

There is no doubt that Stern is one of the best Hegel scholars currently around ... a remarkably competent and enormously resourceful analyst of what is living and dead in a metaphysical discourse which does not ostracize Hegel.

• Introduction: How is Hegelian Metaphysics Possible? ; PART ONE ; 1. Hegel's Idealism ; 2. Did Hegel Hold an Identity Theory of Truth? ; 3. Hegel's Doppelsatz: A Neutral Reading ; PART TWO ; 4. British Hegelianism: A Non-Metaphysical View? ; 5. Hegel, British Idealism, and the Curious Case of the Concrete Universal ; 6. Coherence as a Test for Truth ; PART THREE ; 7. Hegel and Pragmatism ; 8. Peirce on Hegel: Nominalist or Realist? ; 9. Peirce, Hegel and the Category of Secondness ; 10. Peirce, Hegel and the Category of Firstness ; 11. James and Bradley on Understanding ; PART FOUR ; 12. Individual Existence and the Philosophy of Difference