Tag: hegel
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Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger
Waller R. Newell’s Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger invites the reader into a vast intellectual landscape stretching from the twilight of the ancient world to the cataclysms of twentieth-century totalitarianism and beyond. In its scope, it captures the restless efforts of modern philosophers, beginning with Rousseau, to restore a sense of integral community and…
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Nietzsche and the Shadow of God
Nietzsche and the Shadow of God is a work that ventures into the fraught terrain where Nietzsche’s philosophy confronts the two-thousand-year-old religious heritage of the West. Didier Franck’s study, here introduced for the first time to English-speaking audiences through a careful and readable translation by Bettina Bergo and Philippe Farah, does not aim at either…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: A Propaedeutic
Thomas Sören Hoffmann’s Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: A Propaedeutic is a monumental intellectual biography that goes deeply into the dense philosophy of Hegel, the master philosopher of German idealism and the last great system builder of European philosophy. Hoffmann offers a comprehensive exploration of Hegel’s thought, working through all the major themes that define his…
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Picturing Hegel: An Illustrated Guide to Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Logic
Picturing Hegel: An Illustrated Guide to Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Logic by Julie E. Maybee is a groundbreaking work that breathes new life into G.W.F. Hegel’s notoriously dense and challenging Encyclopaedia Logic. Maybee created an ambitious project to demystify Hegel’s philosophical system by employing diagrams and illustrations, offering a novel approach that caters to both newcomers and…
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Hegel’s Shorter Logic: An Introduction and Commentary
Hegel’s Shorter Logic: An Introduction and Commentary by John Grier Hibben and Eric v.d. Luft is a monumental contribution to Hegelian scholarship, offering an in-depth exploration of Hegel’s Encyclopedia Logic. Since its original publication in 1902, Hibben’s work has been celebrated for its clarity and insightful interpretation of Hegel’s philosophical system. This revised edition, significantly…
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Le idee migliorano. Origini e presupposti della Storia della filosofia di Hegel (1650-1827)
Roberto Bordoli’s Le idee migliorano. Origini e presupposti della Storia della filosofia di Hegel (1650-1827) is a compelling exploration of the development of the history of philosophy as an autonomous discipline and Hegel’s approach to it, steeped in a historical and ethical consciousness that reflects the intellectual evolution of modern Europe. Bordoli positions the history…
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Hegel in Nürnberg: Zeugnisse der Lehre und Zeichen der Liebe 1808 bis 1816
In Hegel in Nürnberg: Zeugnisse der Lehre und Zeichen der Liebe 1808 bis 1816, Rolf Gröschner and Wolfgang Mölkner make an intricate exploration of the unique period during which Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel served as rector at the Egidien-Gymnasium in Nuremberg. This work is neither a mere chronological recounting nor a simple historical narrative. Instead,…
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Hegel und die Freiheit der Modernen
Domenico Losurdo’s Hegel und die Freiheit der Modernen (Hegel and the Freedom of the Moderns) is an intellectually dense and methodically expansive work that scrutinizes and dismantles longstanding stereotypes surrounding Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, particularly the reductionist portrayal of him as merely a theorist of conservative restoration. Losurdo revisits Hegel’s philosophy through a historically grounded…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gesammelte Werke
The historical-critical Academy edition of G.W.F. Hegel’s Gesammelte Werke (Collected Works) is the scholarly edition that encompasses the entirety of Hegel’s preserved works. This comprehensive project provides an authoritative resource on Hegel’s major writings, establishing a milestone in philosophical scholarship. It includes both published volumes and those forthcoming, aiming to cover everything from Hegel’s published…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phänomenologie des Geistes, Gesammelte Werke, 09
Hegel was thirty-seven; he was lecturing at the University of Jena, but was not very successful. He was quite poor, he needed money. He had a contract with a publisher in Bamberg for the Phenomenology, his first big and serious philosophical book. At some point the work slowed down and Hegel did not receive any payments,…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jenaer Systementwürfe III, Gesammelte Werke, 08
The lecture manuscript on the philosophy of nature and philosophy of spirit from the years 1805/06 represents the latest of the three surviving system drafts from Hegel’s Jena period. Regarding the philosophy of nature, the text of this lecture stands out because it is the first to have a systematic structure that closely resembles the…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungsmanuskripte I (1816-1831), Gesammelte Werke, 17
This work presents an in-depth exploration of the Philosophy of Religion, one of the key areas of Hegel’s thought. These are lecture manuscripts organized into three major parts, examining religion from its fundamental concept to its most developed, revealed forms. Part One delves into the concept of religion, providing a general definition, a scientific approach…
