A major figure in German Idealism, early 19th century philosopher G. W. F. Hegel developed a comprehensive philosophical framework, referred to as "Absolute Idealism" which sought to describe the relation between mind and nature. Underpinning...
Offers a critical review of Johann Georg Hamann, a retrospective of the life and works of one of Germany's challenging thinkers and writers. This title includes an essay on the role of friendship in Hamann's life, in the author's thought, and...
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...
A sweeping investigation of how knowledge is obtained by means of absolute truth, including how the spirit reveals itself as absolute reality, The Phenomenology of Mind is an intellectual tour-de-force and represents a great philosophical works for the...
"The publication of . . this book is an intellectual event."--Alasdair MacIntyreOne of the central problems in the history of moral and political philosophy since antiquity has been to explain how human society and its civil institutions came...