First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Hegel's logic is often understood as a competitor to ordinary formal logic; this leads to such false accusations as that hegel "denies the principle of non-Contradiction." on the contrary, Hegel's speculative logic is wholly conservative with respect to ordinary logic. What hegel denies is ordinary logic's suitability to be a paradigm for philosophy. Hegel's logic, Itself, Can be seen as arising from a critical ontological reflection on ordinary logic.