“Jean Hyppolite (1952)
Source: Logic & Existence from State University of New York Press, 1997. Final Chapter before Conclusion reproduced here.”
“Hegelian Logic is the absolute genesis of sense, a sense which, to itself, is its own sense, which is not opposed to the being whose sense it is, but which is sense and being simultaneously.”
“immanent purposiveness”
“There is no other way to conceive Hegelian Logic. It is always the whole that develops itself, that reproduces itself in a more profound and more explicit form.”
“The circle of Essence takes up that of Being, and the circle of the Concept that of Essence. “The Whole possesses nothing astonishing” (Phenomenology §32); what is astonishing is that it divides itself, that it expounds itself, but as totality it is never excluded from any one of its positions.”
“Or rather, in the medium of the Logos, no one word would be able to imply this disappearance of the Whole. The Whole is there insofar as it is excluded, sublated; it is there because it is lacking; it is there as negation in the position and as internal negativity.”
“The Whole that we would like to put outside is in fact inside, like the exterior which is only an interior; these words of representation, inside and outside, fit a nature that realises the absolute Idea in spatial indifference, but they are nothing but dialectical terms in the absolute form or in the element of the Logos.”
“The Whole is indeed Singularity, but the authentic Singularity is only the Whole in the opening of its own development-the concrete universal-the understanding which is at the same time intuitive and discursive.”