Hegel (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Terry Pinkard
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1770-1831
- Setting: Württemberg, Tübingen, Berne, Frankfurt, Jena, Bamberg, Heidelberg, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, and Paris
- Principal Characters: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Marie Helena Susanna von Tucher Hegel, Christiane Hegel, Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, France or French people, Nineteenth century, Education or educators, Paris, Eighteenth century, Germany or German people
- Locales: Paris, France, Berlin, Germany, Germany, Vienna, Austria, Brussels, Belgium, Frankfurt, Germany
Terry Pinkard opens this satisfying, well-written biography with a preface that dismisses the usual commonplaces about Hegel: Hegel’s philosophy was not transformed by Karl Marx into Marx’s theory of history; Hegel did not teach that reality is ultimately spiritual and a product of thesis/antithesis/synthesis; Hegel did not praise the Prussian state as the perfection of history; and he did not inspire German nationalism, authoritarianism, and militarism with pompous assertions about the Absolute. What Pinkard stresses about Hegel are his enthusiasm for the French Revolution and...
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