Hegel : a biography

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Hegel : a biography

Terry Pinkard

Cambridge University Press, 2001, c2000

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Bibliography: p. 751-765

Includes index

"First paperback edition 2001" -- T.p. verso

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One of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most abstruse and impenetrable of thinkers. This major biography of Hegel offers not only a complete account of the life, but also a perspicuous overview of the key philosophical concepts in Hegel's work in a style that will be accessible to professionals and non-professionals alike. Terry Pinkard situates Hegel firmly in the historical context of his times. The story of that life is of an ambitious, powerful thinker living in a period of great tumult dominated by the figure of Napoleon. The Hegel who emerges from this account is a complex, fascinating figure of European modernity, who offers us a still compelling examination of that new world born out of the political, industrial, social, and scientific revolutions of his period.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on the text
  • 1. Hegel's formation in Old Wurttemberg
  • 2. The Protestant seminary in Tubingen
  • 3. From Berne to Frankfurt to Jena: failed projects and fresh starts
  • 4. Texts and drafts: Hegel's path to the Phenomenology from Frankfurt to Jena
  • 5. The Phenomenology of Spirit: Hegel finds his voice
  • 6. Life in transition: from Jena to Bamberg
  • 7. Nuremberg respectability
  • 8. From the Phenomenology to the 'System': Hegel's Logic
  • 9. Heidelberg: coming into focus
  • 10. Berlin: reform and repression at the focal point (1818-1821)
  • 11. Hegel's Philosophy of Right: freedom, history, and the modern European state
  • 12. Consolidation: Berlin, Brussels, Vienna (1821-1824)
  • 13. Assertion: Berlin, Paris (1824-1827)
  • 14. Thinking through modern life: nature, religion, art, and the absolute
  • 15. Home: 1827-1831
  • Notes
  • Chronology of Hegel's life
  • Hegel's works cited
  • Works cited
  • Index.

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