Books by G. W. F. Hegel

First published in 1807, G.W.F. Hegel's remarkable philosophical text examines the dynamics of human experience from its simplest beginnings in consciousness through its development into more complex forms. In this edition, Peter Fuss and John Dobbins provide a succinct, highly informative, introduction to several key concepts in Hegel's thinking.

Bringing together for the first time all of G.W.F. Hegel's major Introductions in one place, this book ambitiously attempts to present readers with Hegel's systematic thought through his Introductions alone. The Editors articulate to what extent, precisely, Hegel's Introductions truly reflect his philosophic thought as a whole. Certainly each of Hegel's Introductions can stand alone, capturing a facet of his overarching idea of truth. But compiled all together, they serve to lay out the intricate tapestry of Hegel's thought, woven with a dialectic that progresses from one book to another, one philosophical moment to another. Hegel's reflections on philosophy, religion, aesthetics, history, and law-all included here-have profoundly influenced many subsequent thinkers, from post-Hegelian idealists or materialists like Karl Marx, to the existentialism of Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre; from the phenomenological tradition of Edmund Husserl to Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and other post-moderns, to thinkers farther afield, like Japan's famous Kyoto School or India's Aurobindo. This book provides the opportunity to discern how the ideas of these later thinkers may have originally germinated in Hegel's writings, as well as to penetrate Hegel's worldview in his own words, his grand architecture of the journey of the Spirit.

"Phenomenology of Spirit" was Hegel's first major work. Here, translations of sections are provided, accompanied by summaries of the parts not translated so as to provide the reader with a sense of the whole. The sections include the introduction and the master-slave dialect.

Brown and Hodgson present a new English edition of Hegel's 1822-3 lectures on the philosophy of world history. Here he sets out his vision of the development of reason, spirit, and culture in human history, as it advances inexorably towards the establishment of a political state of free, fully self-conscious individuals and just institutions.

Peter C. Hodgson presents a new translation of Hegel's 1829 lectures on the proofs of the existence of God, based on the definitive German edition. These lectures give us the great philosopher's final and most seasoned thinking on a topic of obvious significance to him, that of the reality status of God and ways of knowing God.

Hegel's Philosophy of Right concerns ideas on justice, moral responsibility, family life, economic activity, and the political structure of the state. It shows how human freedom involves living with others in accordance with publicly recognized righs and laws. This edition combines a revised translation with a cogent introduction to Hegel's work.

What I think remains sustainable and valid in Hegel's thought is the attempt to regard the ongoing crisis of reason as itself constitutive of self-consciousness. |s Revue Internationale de Philosophie |d 01/10/1996

Hegel's "Aesthetics" gives full expression to his theory of art. He considers the nature of art, surveys the history of art from the ancient world through to the romantic movement, criticizes major works, probing their meaning and significance and deals individually with different art forms.

The present reissue of Wallace's translation of Hegel's Philosophy of Mind includes the Zusatze or lecture-notes which, in the collected works, accompany the first section entitled "Subjective Mind" and which Wallace omitted from his translation. Professor J. N. Findlay has written a Foreword and this replaces Wallace's introductory essays.

Offers an expression to the author's seminal theory of art. This title considers the general nature of art as a spiritual experience, distinguishes the beauty of art and the beauty of nature, and examines artistic genius and originality. It also surveys the history of art from the ancient world through to the end of the eighteenth century.

This is a new translation of the first volume of Hegel's lectures on the History of Philosophy and includes material from lecture notes taken by Hegel's pupils in 1923-4, 1925-6, and 1927-28.

Herbert Marcuse called the preface to Hegel's Phenomenology "e;one of the greatest philosophical undertakings of all times."e; This summary of Hegel's system of philosophy is now available in English translation with commentary on facing pages. While remaining faithful to the author's meaning, Walter Kaufmann has removed many encumbrances inherent in Hegel's style.

Expounds upon consciousness, self-consciousness, reason, spirit, religion and absolute knowing and also supports Kant, denounces skepticism and hails idealism.

A translation of 'Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundisse' and 'Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts.'