Tag: Philosophy
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phänomenologie des Geistes, Gesammelte Werke, 09
Hegel was thirty-seven; he was lecturing at the University of Jena, but was not very successful. He was quite poor, he needed money. He had a contract with a publisher in Bamberg for the Phenomenology, his first big and serious philosophical book. At some point the work slowed down and Hegel did not receive any payments,…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jenaer Systementwürfe III, Gesammelte Werke, 08
The lecture manuscript on the philosophy of nature and philosophy of spirit from the years 1805/06 represents the latest of the three surviving system drafts from Hegel’s Jena period. Regarding the philosophy of nature, the text of this lecture stands out because it is the first to have a systematic structure that closely resembles the…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungsmanuskripte I (1816-1831), Gesammelte Werke, 17
This work presents an in-depth exploration of the Philosophy of Religion, one of the key areas of Hegel’s thought. These are lecture manuscripts organized into three major parts, examining religion from its fundamental concept to its most developed, revealed forms. Part One delves into the concept of religion, providing a general definition, a scientific approach…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse (1830), Gesammelte Werke, 20
This work presents Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline, a foundational text in German Idealism. It outlines Hegel’s systematic approach to philosophy, covering three major areas: Logic, the Philosophy of Nature, and the Philosophy of Spirit. The book begins with a detailed introduction and several prefaces, including those to the…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse (1827), Gesammelte Werke, 19
This volume presents G. W. F. Hegel’s Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1827), a foundational work that captures Hegel’s comprehensive system of philosophy, divided into three main parts: Logic, Philosophy of Nature, and Philosophy of Spirit. The Encyclopedia begins with Hegel’s prefaces to both the first and second editions, followed by a detailed…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Schriften und Entwürfe I (1817-1825), Gesammelte Werke, 15
This volume of Gesammelte Werke focuses on a variety of Hegel’s early writings, both published and unpublished, spanning across his intellectual development from 1799 to 1808. It includes printed works, manuscripts, and secondary transmissions that shed light on his evolving philosophical views. Printed Works: Manuscripts: Secondary Transmissions: The appendix provides helpful editorial aids, including a…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Schriften und Entwürfe (1799-1808), Gesammelte Werke, 05
This volume of the Academy Edition presents Hegel’s early writings from Jena and texts from his time in Bamberg. It begins with the Fragments of a Critique of the German Constitution, which Hegel started writing in Frankfurt. The individual sections are arranged in chronological order, reflecting the multiple revisions of this text that Hegel never…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Frühe Schriften I, Gesammelte Werke, 01
This book provides a comprehensive collection of Hegel’s earliest writings and reflections, spanning his youth through his formative years. It includes diaries, early school essays, sermons, studies, and correspondence that illuminate his philosophical development. Each section captures Hegel’s grappling with questions central to his later work, including religion, ethics, and metaphysics, in addition to his…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Frühe Exzerpte (1785-1800), Gesammelte Werke, 03
This volume provides a collection of early writings and excerpts from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s educational and formative years. It encompasses writings from his time in gymnasium (1785-1788), his years in Bern (1794-1796), and various undated excerpts. The contents cover philosophical reflections, pedagogical insights, definitions of central philosophical terms, and observations on European culture and…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungsmanuskripte II (1816-1831), Gesammelte Werke, 18
The reception history of Hegel’s philosophy has been largely shaped by his lectures. However, manuscripts of these lectures have only survived fragmentarily—except for the manuscript on the philosophy of religion, which was already published with appendices in GW 17. This volume brings together all the other surviving manuscripts and notes for the lectures that Hegel…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Nürnberger Gymnasialkurse und Gymnasialreden (1808-1816), Gesammelte Werke, 10,1
In Hegel’s philosophical development, there is a decade-long gap between the foundational years in Jena (1801-1806) and the years of elaboration in Heidelberg and Berlin (1816-1831). This period includes the two Bamberg years (1807-1808), for which the few texts are already published in volumes 5 and 12 of the Gesammelte Werke, and especially the Nuremberg…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Nürnberger Gymnasialkurse und Gymnasialreden (1808-1816), Gesammelte Werke, 10,2
In Hegel’s philosophical development, there is a decade-long gap between the foundational years in Jena (1801-1806) and the years of elaboration in Heidelberg and Berlin (1816-1831). This period includes the two Bamberg years (1807-1808), for which the few texts are already published in volumes 5 and 12 of the Gesammelte Werke, and especially the Nuremberg…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Wissenschaft der Logik. Erster Band. Die objektive Logik (1812/13), Gesammelte Werke, 11
Hegel’s Science of Logic is a landmark work that deeply examines the underlying structures of thought and reality. Volume 1, The Objective Logic, is divided into two primary books: The Doctrine of Being and The Doctrine of Essence. This volume introduces Hegel’s systematic philosophy, beginning with a deep inquiry into the most fundamental categories of…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse – Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, Gesammelte Werke, 14,1
Hegel’s Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts is considered one of the classical and most influential works in modern legal and political philosophy. In it, he outlines a philosophy of objective spirit, partly based on earlier ‘natural law’ and partly in response to the political and legal conditions following the French Revolution and at the start…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts: Beilagen, Gesammelte Werke, 14,2
Hegel’s Groundwork of the Philosophy of Right is one of the most classical and influential works in modern legal and political philosophy. In it, he outlines a philosophy of objective spirit, partly drawing on earlier ‘natural law’ and partly with reference to the political and legal situation following the French Revolution and at the beginning…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Exzerpte und Notizen (1809-1831), Gesammelte Werke, 22
The volume contains all the remaining notes and excerpts from books, journals, and newspapers by Hegel from the years 1809 to 1831, primarily from his time in Berlin. Hegel had already compiled extensive excerpts from the literature he read during his gymnasium years and had kept them permanently, referring to them as the “incunabula of…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Frühe Schriften II, Gesammelte Werke, 02
Continuing from Volume I of the “Early Writings” published in 1989, Volume II contains all texts from Hegel’s years in Frankfurt (1797–1800): the revised Berne manuscripts on faith, religion, and the history of Israel, as well as newly created manuscripts on the history of Israel and the Greek, Jewish, and Christian religions. It also includes…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Wissenschaft der Logik I, Gesammelte Werke, 23,1
The lecture transcripts of Hegel’s lectures on logic provide a comprehensive view of the historical development of logic, especially the “pre-concept.” In them, Hegel’s logic gains a liveliness and clarity that makes understanding this discipline much easier compared to the Encyclopedia. These lectures are preserved in ten transcripts. The first volume includes, in addition to…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Kunst I, Gesammelte Werke, 28,1
Hegel’s Philosophy of Art, in its extensively developed form, has been preserved solely through lecture transcripts from the lectures Hegel gave in Berlin, which he held a total of four times. These transcripts provide a reliable picture of the development of this discipline. Part I contains the text witnesses of the first two lectures: The…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte I, Gesammelte Werke, 27,1
Hegel first presented his Philosophy of World History in the winter of 1822/23, as the last discipline, only after the aesthetics and philosophy of religion. The manuscript he prepared for this first course has been lost; extensive fragments only exist for the “Introduction” that he presented in the later courses, especially in the last one…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie des subjektiven Geistes III, Gesammelte Werke, 25,3
The first volume, published in 2008 (GW 25,1), contains the lecture notes from the 1822 and 1825 lectures that Hegel delivered based on the first edition of his Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse (1817). The second volume (published in 2011) includes the texts from the 1827/28 lectures (the lecture notes by Stolzenberg, with variants…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie I, Gesammelte Werke, 30,1
In the context of Hegel’s lecture activities, his lectures on the history of philosophy hold particular significance: After the lectures on logic and metaphysics, Hegel devoted himself to no other subject as often and in as much detail, and with these lectures, he essentially founded the discipline of the history of philosophy within the structure…
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Die Bibliothek Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegels II, Abteilungen IV-IX, Anhang, Gesammelte Werke, 31,2
The catalog of Hegel’s library, based on the auction catalog published in Berlin in 1832, is presented in two volumes. Volume 31,2 contains the titles under the following categories: IV. Geography, History, Legal and Political ScienceV. Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and MedicineVI. Miscellaneous Writings Additionally, the following categories are included: VII. MapsVIII. Music for the PianoforteIX.…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie III, Gesammelte Werke, 30,3
Within the context of Hegel’s lecturing activity, the lectures on the history of philosophy hold special significance: next to his lectures on logic and metaphysics, Hegel dedicated himself to no other topic as frequently and thoroughly. With these lectures, he effectively established the discipline of the history of philosophy within the framework of the philosophical…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse (1817), Gesammelte Werke, 13
In the winter semester of 1816/17, Hegel lectured in Heidelberg on the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences and soon afterward—in June 1817—published an outline of his system under this title. Hegel’s student and biographer, Karl Rosenkranz, wrote about this: “This first edition of the Encyclopaedia still fully bears the creative breath of its initial production.…
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Zarathustra’s Moral Tyranny: Spectres of Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach
Zarathustra’s Moral Tyranny: Spectres of Kant, Hegel, and Feuerbach by Francesca Cauchi is a philosophical analysis that reshapes our understanding of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, often regarded as one of his most enigmatic and richly layered texts. Cauchi provocatively reinterprets Zarathustra not merely as a herald of values opposed to Christianity, but as an advocate…
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Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society
In Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx, Andres Saenz De Sicilia analyses the philosophical and socio-economic dimensions of the concept of “subsumption,” combining together the ideas of modern philosophy with critical social theory to examine how this notion operates within the framework of capitalism. At the basis of this inquiry is the recognition of capitalism…
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation | Two Volumes
Arthur Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation is one of the most ambitious and penetrating philosophical treatises of the 19th century, made from a complex combination of epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, and a deep existential inquiry into the nature of human suffering and the possibilities of transcendence. Originally published in 1818 and later expanded…
Simon Gros 