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Renate Wahsner, Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Naturphilosophie. Über ihren Sinn im Lichte der heutigen Naturerkenntnis (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1996), pp. 244. ISBN 3663130756X. £32.00.

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Renate Wahsner, Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Naturphilosophie. Über ihren Sinn im Lichte der heutigen Naturerkenntnis (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1996), pp. 244. ISBN 3663130756X. £32.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

Thomas Posch*
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University of Vienna
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1 Among these are: Petry, M.J. (ed.), Hegel and Newtonianism, Dordrecht 1993 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Houlgate, S. (ed.), Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature, New York 1999 Google Scholar; Breidbach, O. & Engelhardt, D. v. (eds.), Hegel und die Lebenswissenschaften, Berlin 2000 Google Scholar; Wahsner, R. & Posch, Th. (eds.), Die Natur muß bewiesen werden. Zu Grundfragen der Hegelschen Naturphilosophie, Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] 2002 Google Scholar.

2 These doubts have already been raised in: Borzeszkowski, Horst-Heino v. & Wahsner, R., Physikalischer Dualismus und Dialektischer Widerspruch, Darmstadt 1989, p. 151155 Google Scholar. The essential argument there is that the concept of mass is already required for a construction of a space-time-unity as Hegel tries to give it. (See also Borzeszkowski, H.-H. & Wahsner, R., Action and Reaction. Studies on Motion and Contradiction in Physics, Berlin (Logos Verlag) 2001, p. 6061 Google Scholar).

3 Cf. Wahsner, R.: Zur Auswirkung der Hegelschen Physikrezeption auf die Naturphilosophie der Folgezeit. Hegel-Jahrbuch 1991 Google Scholar, S. 17-27, Fernwald (Annerod).