Title: Hegel : a biography /
Authors: Pinkard, Terry P.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,; Philosophers Germany Biography
Abstract: "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 first major biography of Hegel in English offers not only a complete, up-to-date 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 nonprofessionals alike." "Terry Pinkard situates Hegel firmly in the 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. Hegel's friendships and encounters with some of the great minds of this period feature prominently in the narrative: Holderlin, Goethe, Humboldt, Fichte, Schelling, Novalis, the Schlegels, Mendelssohn, and others. The treatment of the philosophy avoids Hegel's own famously technical jargon in order to display the full sweep and power of Hegel's thought."--Jacket.
Contents: Hegel's formation in old Württemberg -- The Protestant seminary in Tübingen -- From Berne to Frankfurt to Jena: failed projects and fresh starts -- Texts and drafts: Hegel's path to the Phenomenology from Frankfurt to Jena -- The Phenomenology of spirit: Hegel finds his voice -- Life in transition: from Jena to Bamberg -- Nuremberg respectability -- From the Phenomenology to the "system": Hegel's Logic -- Heidelberg: coming into focus -- Berlin: reform and repression at the focal point (1818-1821) -- Hegel's Philosophy of right: freedom, history, and the modern European state -- Consolidation: Berlin, Brussels, Vienna (1821-1824) -- Assertion: Berlin, Paris (1824-1827) --Thinking through modern life: nature, religion, art and the absolute -- Home: 1827-1831.