The Idea of Hegel's "Science of Logic" Hardcover – November 15, 2013

This has got to be the best, most thorough study of Hegel's masterpiece, I have ever seen (along with Stephen Houlgate's The Opening of Hegel's Logic, which sadly only goes through the dialectic of infinity). He is in a class of his own, even beyond such classics as Mure and Mctaggart. Rosen shows an astounding grasp of the text, and is able to convey in his characteristic clarity and elegance the key insights of Hegel's work, to the uninitiated.The one critique I have is that his study, though it demonstrates an exhaustive knowledge of the text, does not in most cases stoop to tell us what page he is referring to. For a college student writing papers on Hegelian metaphysics, I wish I had in Rosen's book some direction as to where particularly we should go to see Hegel's enunciation of the points Rosen is making, as that's required for most papers. Don't let this dissuade you from getting the book though. Rosen is extremely helpful for comprehension, and is truly a must read alongside the Science of Logic. If you're additionally wanting a tight, page by page commentary, check out Houlgate and Burbidge.

There are very few people in the US who spend the necessary time to read Hegel's Logic even though Hegel's system is incomprehensible without spending the time reading the Logic, Philosophy of Nature and the Philosophy of Spirit.

Brilliant, thorough, deep and incisive (alas) last book from Stanley Rosen.

I've just read another Stanley Rose's and appreciated his philosophical capacity to explorer and explains many issues in philosophy, but in his last works, he has obtained a result of great value, in particular by his clearness in reading and interpretation of the historical place occupied by Hegel's Logic in the occidental philosophy. I fact this works is 'tour de force' into the Hegelian studies.