Jakub Mácha - Wittgenstein and Hegel: Reevaluation of Difference

Wittgenstein and Hegel

ISBN 978-3-11-056885-1

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ISSN 2365-9629

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Most of the chapters in this volume were originally presented at the conference Wittgenstein and Hegel: Reevaluation of Difference, which took place at the TU Dresden between 28 and 30 June 2017 and was co-organised by the editors of this volume. The talks at the conference were recorded and are available on the conference website: wittgensteinhegel2017.weebly.com. Jakub Mcha and I are grateful for the generous funding provided by the TU Dresden Graduate Academy, a German Federal Ministry of Education and Researchs Excellence Initiative. We would like to thank the other co-organisers of the conference, namely Louisa Frintert, Marco Kleber and Alexander Romahn, as well as Thomas Rentsch and Jim Conant for their intellectual support for the conference. It goes without saying that the discussion and exchange of ideas at the conference and beyond helped to greatly enrich the articles in this volume. I am especially thankful to my son Jakob E. Berg for the video recordings of the conference presentations.

In addition to papers by the conference participants, the editors have also included six other chapters written especially for this book. We are especially grateful to the authors themselves, who have contributed their knowledge and many hours of work to make this volume a reality. Special thanks go to our reviewers (some of who were also contributors themselves), who provided valuable feedback and helped to improve the quality of this book. We note with sadness that Wilhelm Ltterfelds passed away while this volume was in preparation. We are especially glad and privileged to have been able to include his work.

We are also grateful to our proof-editor Andrew Godfrey, who edited most of the chapters by non-native speakers of English (www.agodfreytranslations.com). His valuable suggestions helped to greatly improve the clarity of these chapters. Danica Jeov helped us with the formal consistency of the volume. This publication was supported by the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno.

Last but not least, my thanks go to everyone at De Gruyter, especially to Christoph Schirmer for his editorial advice and support, and to Stefan Majetschak and the International Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, who made it possible for the volume to appear in the series On Wittgenstein .

Many of the contributors to this volume, as well as other authors, have expressed a definite interest in further clarifying the relationship between Wittgenstein and Hegel and building on the results of this volume in future research. The editors would be very happy to contribute to the continuation of this work.

Alexander Berg, Prague, January 2019