Daniel Berthold-Bond is Professor of Philosophy at Bard College and author of Hegel's Theory of Madness, also published by SUNY Press.

• Abbreviations Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Hegel's Theory of Truth 1. Truth as a Temporal, Historical Eventa. Hegel and Frege: Truth and Thoughtb. The Principle of Developmentc. The Principle of Concretiond. The Question of Relativism2. The "Agency" of Trutha. Hegel and Heidegger: The Anthropocentric Interpretation of Truthb. Hegel's Panlogistic Interpretation of Truthc. Hegel's Attempted Synthesis of Anthropomorphism and Panlogism3. The Criterion of Truth: Hegel's Twist on the Correspondence TheoryChapter Three: The "Riddle and Problem" of Knowledge 1. The Problem Itself2. Hegel's Solution to the Problema. Criticisms of Kanti. The Kantian Critical Philosophy as Scepticismii. The Basic Issue: Is Alteration a Distortion?iii. The Ding an sich as Caput Mortuumb. Hegel's Positive Solutioni. "Removing the Curtain"ii. Hegel's Epistemological Criteriology3. Hegel's Idealisma. Kant's "Critical Idealism" and Fichte's "Subjective Idealism"b. The "Overlapping" of Realism and IdealismChapter Four: Becoming and Dialectic 1. Hegel's Notion of Substancea. The Influence of Aristotleb. The Influence of Leibnizc. The Influence of Heraclitus2. The Nature of Becominga. "Mere Logical Becoming"b. The Deeper Significance of Becoming3. The Nature of Dialectica. Dialectic as Negativityb. Dialectic as a Mode of ThoughtChapter Five: Hegel's Philosophic Method: The "Self-Construction of Reason" 1. Introductory Remarks on Method2. Method and Reason3. Method as Dialectica. Dialectic and the Dynamic Character of Thoughtb. Dialectic and the Grand Synthesis: The Dovetailing of Categories of hought and Being4. Method as Teleologya. Teleology and Systemb. Teleology and CircularityChapter Six: The Question of Completion: Hegel and Christian Eschatology 1. The Ambiguity2. The Book of Revelation3. Revelation and Reason4. Hegel's Christian Eschatology and the Apocalyptic Vision of a "New World"a. Sufferingb. The Cursec. The "Tabernacle of God"d. The "New World"5. The Ambiguity DeepensChapte Seven: The Question of Completion: Hegel's Philosophic Eschatology 1. The "New World" Revisited2. Evidence for the Epochal Reading of Hegel's Eschatology: Placing the New World" in Context3. Pro and Con4. Other Viewsa. The Literal (Absolutist) Interpretationb. Epochal Interpretations, Hesitant and Otherwisec. Attempts at a Synthetic Interpretation5. ConclusionNotes Bibliography Subject Index Name Index