The Essential Writings

georg wilhelm friedrich hegel

Hegel's major works; dialectic; metaphysics; science; experience; philosophic truth; Absolute Spirit.

Genres philosophytheoryclassicsnonfictioncollections

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1974

This edition

Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Published: April 21, 1977 by Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780061318313
ASIN: 0061318310
Language: German

About the author

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher and one of the founding figures of German Idealism. Influenced by Kant's transcendental idealism and Rousseau's politics, Hegel formulated an elaborate system of historical development of ethics, government, and religion through the dialectical unfolding of the Absolute. Hegel was one of the most well-known historicist philosopher, and his thought presaged continental philosophy, including postmodernism. His system was inverted into a materialist ideology by Karl Marx, originally a member of the Young Hegelian faction.