While the lectures on the philosophy of right in GW 26,1, from Hegel’s time in Heidelberg and his early years in Berlin, prepare the Foundations of the Philosophy of Right (GW 14,1), in the first half of the 1820s, Hegel lectures on his philosophy of right based on this lecture compendium. In addition, he supports his lectures primarily with his handwritten notes (GW 14,2), but not without often going beyond these notes. The present volume, GW 26,2, documents this further development of his philosophy of right with the lectures from the years 1821/22 (preserved through an anonymous transcript) and 1822/23 (preserved through the transcript by Hotho).
Simon Gros 
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