ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author briefly dwells on the general interpretation of the nature and task of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Logic—an interpretation that the author have extensively developed in other works. She then concentrates on the second moment of the logical method, the moment of the "advancement" or Fortgang. The author argues that the action that advances or the action that produces the advancement is fundamentally connected with the crisis generated and encountered within the logical process of transformation. In order to show the relevance of the account of Hegel's logical "method" for reflection on historical and political crisis more generally, she turns to other authors such as Thucydides and Gramsci. Herein lies the task of philosophy in times of crisis, namely, in helping us think through the interregnum thereby leading us out of it. This is the important practical, indeed political, lesson of Hegel's dialectic-speculative Logic.
