Acknowledgments
Introduction: Thinking Transformation
Part I. Hegel’s Logic of Transformation
1. Thinking in Times of Crisis: Hegel’s Logic of Transformation
Prelude: After the Crisis, Telling the Story
1. From Today’s Present to Hegel’s Logic as a Logic of Transformative Processes
2. Another Crisis: Times of Change and Hegel’s Dialectic
3. The “Need” for a Logic of Change
4. Dialectic Is Movement: Zeno’s Arrow and Heraclitus’s Flux
5. Dialectic-Speculative Logic: Understanding and the Power of Reason
6. Hegel’s Dialectic-Speculative Logic: The Path for a Reconstruction
2. From the Beginning to the End: What Is Method?
1. The Nature of the Process: Determinate Negation and Immanence
2. Logical Movement and Logical Action
3. Method as the Enactment of Truth: Method Is Mythos
4. Method: Beginning, Advancing, and Ending the Logical Action
5. In the End Is the (Beginning of the) Story
3. Forms and Figures
1. Logical Action and Logical Agents
2. Phenomenological and Logical Gestaltung: Logical Forms as “Figures”
3. Logical Figures: Reality in the “Realm of Shadows”
Part II. Structures of Action: Logic and Literature
4. Beginnings
Some Preliminary Remarks: The Synchronic Perspective, or Reading the Logic All Over Again
1. Logical Beginnings: The Two Perspectives
1.1. Enacting the Absolute Beginning: The Figure of Beginning in Being
1.2. The Memory of the Beginning or Beginning-Again: The Figure of Beginning in Essence
1.3. The Beginning of Freedom: The Figure of Beginning in the Concept
2. Violence in the Beginning: Melville’s Billy Budd
2.1. The Logic of Violence: The Violence of Pure Immediacy—Being
2.2. The Logic of Violence: Violence Reflected
2.3. The Logic of Violence: The Violence of Power and the Power of Love
3. Transforming the Beginning
5. Advancing: Transformations
Advancing—the Question
1. Logical Advancements: The Two Perspectives
1.1. Advancing Being: Acting in Search of Determination, or Dasein
1.2. Advancing Essence: Acting in/as the Middle by Returning Back to Oneself, or Gesetztsein
1.3. Advancing the Concept, by Judging: Crisis and Stasis
2. Advancing Beyond Fanaticism: Molière’s Tartuffe
2.1. The Logic of Fanaticism: Advancing Despite Oneself—The Absolutism of Being or Moral Conscience
2.2. The Logic of Fanaticism: Advancing Despite Oneself—The Hypocrisy of Essence
2.3. The Logic of Fanaticism: Advancing Through the Crisis—Judging
3. Transforming the Advancement
Appendix: “Living in the Interregnum”
6. Endings
1. Logical Endings: The Two Perspectives
1.1. Ending Being, an Infinite Postponement: Going Back by Becoming Essence
1.2. Ending Essence: Reclaiming One’s Own End (Before and Against the Concept)
1.3. The Idea, Ending: Knowing When to Stop
2. Part I. Playing the Endgame: Indifference and the Impossible Ending—Beckett’s Endgame
2. Part II. Indifference, Repetition, and Liberation: Leopardi and Bishop
2.1. The Logic of Indifference: Being Indifferent to the End
2.2. The Logic of Indifference: The Absolute of Essence and the End of All Things
2.3. The Logic of Creativity: Ending Beyond the End (of the Idea)
3. Transforming the End
Ending—As in Concluding
General Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names and Works
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