Simon Gros

In Robert R. Williams’ translation of Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit (1827-8), the reader is introduced to one of the lesser-known but philosophically pivotal areas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s thought—his exploration of subjective spirit. These lectures, recently discovered and first published in 1994, form an integral addition to the Hegelian corpus, illuminating…

The Heterodox Hegel advances a precise and ambitious scholarly claim: that Hegel’s system is internally governed by a speculative theology whose center is a narratively articulated Holy Trinity, and that the coherence of this speculative center comes into view only when one tracks, with philological patience, Hegel’s selective allegiance to and transformation of distinct Christian…

Hinging its scholarly wager on modernity as a problem that demands both conceptual reconstruction and historical self-comprehension, Allen Speight’s The Philosophy of Hegel advances a precise contribution: it restores the methodological nerve of Hegel’s project by threading together the diagnostic force of the early Jena writings, the argumentatively staged itinerary of the Phenomenology of Spirit,…

Hodgson’s edition and Brown’s translation of Hegel’s 1830–1831 Lectures on the Philosophy of World History stake a precise claim: they deliver Hegel’s last, most worked-through public articulation of how world history can be grasped as rational—neither as an imposed schema nor as a string of contingencies—by reconstructing the movement whereby spirit comes to know itself…