Murilo Henrique Leite Netto

Taking as its object of analysis Robert Brandom’s project of constructing an interpretation of Hegelian philosophy through the lens of the problems and concepts of analytic philosophy and American pragmatism, this work first aims to provide a general assessment of the exegetical successes and failures of Brandom’s reading, based on both the author’s own work and his Hegelian critics. The purpose of this evaluation is to enable us to develop an interpretation—within the framework of analytic philosophical vocabulary—of Hegelian dialectics that does justice to the radical and contradictory nature of the concept, which Brandom, according to his critics, fails to fully express. The underlying wager is that, regardless of whether Brandom properly understood Hegel’s determinate negation and the dialectical movement—a point of much debate—the author’s work can still be used to outline an analytic portrayal of Hegel that matches the radicality of his thought.