4. The Fiery Crucible, Yorick’s Skull, and Leprosy in the Sky: The Language of Nature (with a Concluding Unscientific Postscriptum)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. 1. The Objective Discourse of Science 1
6. 2. The Ontological Grasp of Judgment 18
7. 3. Why Hegel Didn’t Join the ‘Kant-Klub’: Reason and Speculative Discourse 29
8. 4. The Fiery Crucible, Yorick’s Skull, and Leprosy in the Sky: The Language of Nature (with a Concluding Unscientific Postscriptum) 40
9. 5. Presenting the Past: Hegel’s Epistemological Historiography 58
10. 6. The State University: The University of Berlin and Its Founding Contradictions 71
11. 7. Music and Monosyllables: The Language of Pleasure and Necessity 85
12. 8. Hegel’s Critique of Solger: The Problem of Scientific Communication 96
13. 9. On Schleiermacher and Postmodernity 104
14. Last Words 117
15. Notes 121
16. Bibliography 159
17. Index 171