A philosopher and a foundational figure of German Idealism, this author developed an elaborate system for understanding the historical progression of ethics, government, and religion. Their dialectical approach traces the unfolding of the Absolute, drawing influence from Kantian transcendental idealism and Rousseau's political thought. Recognized as a key historicist philosopher, their work significantly presaged continental philosophy, including postmodernism, and profoundly impacted subsequent thinkers who built upon or reacted against their monumental ideas.
This edition of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) offers a new translation, an introduction, and glossaries to aid readers' understanding of this central text, and will be essential for scholars and students of Hegel.
This new translation of The Science of Logic (also known as 'Greater Logic') includes the revised Book I (1832), Book II (1813), and Book III (1816). Recent research has given us a detailed picture of the process that led Hegel to his final conception of the System and of the place of the Logic within it. We now understand how and why Hegel distanced himself from Schelling, how radical this break with his early mentor was, and to what extent it entailed a return (but with a difference) to Fichte and Kant. In the introduction to the volume, George di Giovanni presents in synoptic form the results of recent scholarship on the subject, and, while recognizing the fault lines in Hegel's System that allow opposite interpretations, argues that the Logic marks the end of classical metaphysics. The translation is accompanied by a full apparatus of historical and explanatory notes.
A translation of Hegel's classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right.
An English translation of Hegel's introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history.