Publisher's Synopsis
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German idealist philosopher, is one of the most influential thinkers in the history of philosophy. His ideas pervade the writings of idealists such as Caird, Bosanquet and Green, of Josiah Royce in the USA, and such major Continental figures as Feuerbach, D. F. Strauss, Theodor Adorno, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and, most importantly, Karl Marx. As such he has played a crucial role in shaping the course of nineteenth and twentieth-century thought, and he remains popular and influential today.
This 10-volume collection, gathers together for the first time the three works that constitute Hegel's lectures on 'Absolute Spirit'. Published from his lecture notes after Hegel's death, these first English translations are essential for understanding the ideas of this immensely important thinker. For Hegel, 'Absolute Spirit' was the total completion of the human attempt to know itself, and he took philosophy, religion and art to be the ways to comprehend it. These important lectures, Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion and The Philosophy of Fine Art, form the backbone of all English-speaking analysis of Hegel's 'Spirit' in the twentieth century.
The original translations remain crucial to an understanding of how Hegel's ideas have come to be understood by English-speaking scholars in the last 100 years. The historical influence of these 10 volumes ensures their continuing relevance to modern philosophers and they should be available to all readers of Hegelian philosophy.
This 10-volume collection, gathers together for the first time the three works that constitute Hegel's lectures on 'Absolute Spirit'. Published from his lecture notes after Hegel's death, these first English translations are essential for understanding the ideas of this immensely important thinker. For Hegel, 'Absolute Spirit' was the total completion of the human attempt to know itself, and he took philosophy, religion and art to be the ways to comprehend it. These important lectures, Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion and The Philosophy of Fine Art, form the backbone of all English-speaking analysis of Hegel's 'Spirit' in the twentieth century.
The original translations remain crucial to an understanding of how Hegel's ideas have come to be understood by English-speaking scholars in the last 100 years. The historical influence of these 10 volumes ensures their continuing relevance to modern philosophers and they should be available to all readers of Hegelian philosophy.
