In this book Berthold-Bond sets himself two main tasks. First, he attempts to describe a central ambiguity, or “unresolved conflict,” between Hegel’s descriptions of “inherently teleological processes of becoming” and his equally compelling “commitment to a closure of becoming”. His second task is to propose a “synthesis” of these two general aspects of the Hegelian system. These two topics must be kept separate in order to highlight the difficulties involved in maintaining the conflict and the synthesis.

In this book Berthold-Bond sets himself two main tasks. First, he attempts to describe a central ambiguity, or “unresolved conflict,” between Hegel’s descriptions of “inherently teleological processes of becoming” and his equally compelling “commitment to a closure of becoming”. His second task is to propose a “synthesis” of these two general aspects of the Hegelian system. These two topics must be kept separate in order to highlight the difficulties involved in maintaining the conflict and the synthesis.