This is an impressive resource for Hegel's arguments about dialectics, contradiction, and modality, and it will be useful to students as well as specialists.

Journal of the History of Philosophy

Hegel is traditionally read as a thinker of necessity, rationality and finitude. In his important new book, Nahum Brown reads Hegel as advancing a novel view of possibility and actuality. Brown's widely informed, important study helps us to grasp Hegel's complex conception of possibility.

Tom Rockmore, Chair Professor of Humanities Professor of Philosophy, Peking University, P. R. China

Hegel on Possibility offers a close and intellectually rigorous reading of key chapters of Hegel's Science of Logic. In particular, Brown's substitution interpretation of productive contradiction boldly confronts the problem of the contradictory character of totality in Hegel's logic of Absolute knowing. Brown's unique and creative thesis from Modal Optimism challenges traditional readings of Hegel on possibility, and develops the Hegelian approach to possibility in new, unforeseeable, directions.

Gregory Moss, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong