Tag: biography

• Hegel: An Intellectual Biography

  Horst Althaus’ Hegel: An Intellectual Biography, as translated by Michael Tarsh, explores the life and evolving thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, offering a comprehensive and deeply detailed intellectual history that for a long time served as the definitive biographical work on the enigmatic philosopher. Unlike the sporadic and often outdated accounts from the nineteenth…

  S. Gros

  January 30, 2025

  Philosophy

  biography, dialectic, education, hegel, history, kant, metaphysics, Philosophy, Politics, religion, theology

• Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom

  Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom by Klaus Vieweg is not merely a biography of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the architect of German idealism, but a philosophical investigation into the life, thought, and historical significance of one of modernity’s most enigmatic thinkers. Klaus Vieweg’s work offers a well researched and vividly narrated account that challenges conventional…

  S. Gros

  January 30, 2025

  Philosophy

  biography, dialectic, education, hegel, history, kant, metaphysics, Philosophy, Politics, religion, theology

• Minna Wagner: A Life, with Richard Wagner

  Minna Wagner: A Life, with Richard Wagner by Professor Dr. Eva Rieger, translated by Chris Walton, is a monumental biography that reconfigures our understanding of Richard Wagner’s first wife, Minna Planer. Far from being the peripheral figure often portrayed in traditional Wagnerian scholarship, Minna was a pivotal influence in Wagner’s creative and personal life. This…

  S. Gros

  November 12, 2024

  Opera

  biography, book, book review, book-review, music, musicology, Opera, richard wagner

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte III, Gesammelte Werke, 27,3

  This volume of Gesammelte Werke presents comprehensive notes from Hegel’s lectures given during the winter semester of 1826/27. These lectures, which include contributions from several key note-takers, delve into complex aspects of Hegelian philosophy, specifically through three major sets of student transcripts that document his mature thought. Joseph Hube’s notes serve as the primary text,…

  S. Gros

  November 9, 2024

  Philosophy

  biography, dialectic, education, hegel, history, kant, metaphysics, Philosophy, theology