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The Concrete Universal as a Critical Notion: an Introduction

Year: 2025

Type: editorial

Abstract: The present introduction outlines the motivations behind this editorial project, which takes the concrete universal as its focus, and briefly reflects on both the critical potential of this Hegelian-inspired notion and the ambiguities it entails. It also proposes three conceptual coordinates that frame the concrete universal as a central intra-Hegelian issue: the logical structure of the ‘concept of the concept’; the reconfiguration of the relationship between concreteness and abstraction; and the dialectical interplay between logic and Realphilosophie. It is remarked that the concrete universal involves the co-constitution of the universal, particular, and singular, revealing universality as inherently self-mediating and immanently realized. It is further suggested that the concrete universal may be understood as a ‘polyfunctional’ notion that brings together various dimensions of Hegel’s system.

Source: Padua Research Archive (University of Padova)

DOI: 10.25430/pupj-verifiche-2025-1-2-2

Authors: Giovanna Miolli, Pablo Pulgar Moya

Language: English

Topic: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: European Commission

Award: INCLUSIVE RATIONALITY. Rearticulating Philosophy’s Social Role Through a Dialogue Among Dialectic Hegelian Conceptual Tools, Contemporary Metaphilosophy, and Gender Perspectives

OpenAlex ID: W7080684094

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