The Impossibility of Time
Hegel and the Antinomies of Pure Reason
Published on 14. May 2026
288 pages
978-1-350-55123-7 (ISBN)
Description
Time raises certain irresolvable contradictions: the question of its absolute beginning leads us into the paradox of infinite regress versus a 'time before time', and to conceive of the temporal present as either an extension or a simple point fails to explain how time passes now.
In this book, James Sares demonstrates - via his readings of Kant and Hegel - the impossibility of time's robust passage. Sares' approach is both exegetical and critical, developing textual analyses of Kant and Hegel's respective claims concerning the antinomies of time while challenging and extending their work in conversation with contemporary debates in metaphysics and the philosophy of time. Drawing on Hegel's logic, he rebuts Kant's suggestion that the arguments of his antinomies do not apply to time because of its status as appearance. Yet Hegel, for Sares, fails to clearly articulate the irresolvability of the antimonies or their metaphysical significance. Sares returns to Kant, contra Hegel, to argue for the importance of the antinomies as problems for the very possibility of worldly existence, even for the rational closure of Hegel's logical system.
By showing how time's robust passage cannot be rationally explained, this work constitutes a novel contribution to the scholarship on Kant, Hegel, and the philosophy of time.
In this book, James Sares demonstrates - via his readings of Kant and Hegel - the impossibility of time's robust passage. Sares' approach is both exegetical and critical, developing textual analyses of Kant and Hegel's respective claims concerning the antinomies of time while challenging and extending their work in conversation with contemporary debates in metaphysics and the philosophy of time. Drawing on Hegel's logic, he rebuts Kant's suggestion that the arguments of his antinomies do not apply to time because of its status as appearance. Yet Hegel, for Sares, fails to clearly articulate the irresolvability of the antimonies or their metaphysical significance. Sares returns to Kant, contra Hegel, to argue for the importance of the antinomies as problems for the very possibility of worldly existence, even for the rational closure of Hegel's logical system.
By showing how time's robust passage cannot be rationally explained, this work constitutes a novel contribution to the scholarship on Kant, Hegel, and the philosophy of time.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Professional and scholarly
File size
14,62 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-350-55123-7 (9781350551237)
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James Sares is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, USA.
Content
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Antinomies of Time as Problems of Pure Reason
Chapter 2. Anti-Dialectical Rebuttals to the Antinomies
Chapter 3. The Promise of Transcendental Idealism
Chapter 4. The Antinomies of Transcendental Idealism
Chapter 5. Hegel's Logical Interpretation of the Antinomies
Chapter 6. The Quantitative Logic of Time
Chapter 7. An Argument for the Reality of Time
Chapter 8. The Contradictions of Eternity and Time
Chapter 9. The Speculative Critique of the Antinomies
Chapter 10. Sufficient Reason and the Incompleteness of Existence
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Chapter 1. The Antinomies of Time as Problems of Pure Reason
Chapter 2. Anti-Dialectical Rebuttals to the Antinomies
Chapter 3. The Promise of Transcendental Idealism
Chapter 4. The Antinomies of Transcendental Idealism
Chapter 5. Hegel's Logical Interpretation of the Antinomies
Chapter 6. The Quantitative Logic of Time
Chapter 7. An Argument for the Reality of Time
Chapter 8. The Contradictions of Eternity and Time
Chapter 9. The Speculative Critique of the Antinomies
Chapter 10. Sufficient Reason and the Incompleteness of Existence
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
