Dialectics as Reflection Logic

An Attempt at a Systematics of Dialectic Types

by Johannes Heinrichs

What is dialectics? The use of this term has reached such a degree of confusion that clarification is long overdue. This book offers for the first time a systematic typology of dialectics – not as a mere enumeration, but as an unfolding from a common origin: the reflexive structure of self-consciousness.

Johannes Heinrichs demonstrates how various types of dialectics can be derived from the four-level reflection logic: subjective and objective, social and medial forms of dialectical thinking. The method of dialectical subsumption enables a fractal subdivision that extends from basic elements to the most complex structures.

The book combines analytical precision with continental philosophical depth and builds bridges between Western rationality and Eastern spirituality. It serves both as a systematic introduction and as a further development of Hegelian dialectics for the 21st century.

From the contents:

- Self-consciousness as the source of dialectics

- The four-level structure of reflection

- Main types: Subjective, objective, social, and medial dialectics

- The method of dialectical subsumption

- Reflection logic and information field theory

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© Johannes Heinrichs

Language: English

Format: PDF

Publisher: Reflexivity Press, 2025