This book provides an accessible and thorough analysis of The Doctrine of Being the first part
of Hegel's Science of Logic. Though it received much scholarly attention in the past
interpreters of this text have generally refrained from examining it in a sufficiently detailed
manner. Through a rigorous and critical reading of Hegel's speculative arguments Mehmet Tabak
illustrates that Hegel meant his logic to be both a presuppositionless analysis and development
of the basic categories of thought on the one hand and a post-Kantian ontology on the other.
However the analysis of the text demonstrates that Hegel fails to deliver such logic. This
volume promises to be an indispensable guide to those who wish to understand the first book of
Science of Logic.
