Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Heidelberg Writings: Journal Publications

Cambridge Hegel Translations

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Brady Bowman (Editor), Allen Speight (Editor)

This work brings together, for the first time in English translation, Hegel's journal publications from his years in Heidelberg (1816 18), writings which have been previously either untranslated or only partially translated into English. The Heidelberg years marked Hegel's return to university teaching and represented an important transition in his life and thought. The translated texts include his important reassessment of the works of the philosopher F. H. Jacobi, whose engagement with Spinozism, especially, was of decisive significance for the philosophical development of German Idealism. They also include his most influential writing about contemporary political events, his essay on the constitutional assembly in his native Wurttemberg, which was written against the background of the dramatic political and social changes occurring in post-Napoleonic Germany. The translators have provided an introduction and notes that offer a scholarly commentary on the philosophical and political background of Hegel's Heidelberg writings.

Genres: Philosophy

198 pages, Hardcover

First published August 6, 2009

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

[Pandora · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very difficult read, but I think this might be one of the most underrated books I’ve ever read.

[ολτζι · Rating 1 out of 5]

hegelians.. just not understandable.