The Letters

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Clark Butler (Translator), Christiane Seiler (Translator)

English, German (translation)

Genres: Philosophy

758 pages, hardback

First published April 17, 1977

About the author

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher and one of the founding figures of German Idealism. Influenced by Kant's transcendental idealism and Rousseau's politics, Hegel formulated an elaborate system of historical development of ethics, government, and religion through the dialectical unfolding of the Absolute. Hegel was one of the most well-known historicist philosopher, and his thought presaged continental philosophy, including postmodernism. His system was inverted into a materialist ideology by Karl Marx, originally a member of the Young Hegelian faction.

Reviews

[Dionysius the Areopagite · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well this settles the coming beach read.

[Bean Wagon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some very dry moments but otherwise a good insight into Hegel, his life, and the times of his writings.