Volume 22, Number 10 · June 12, 1975
Spreading Hegel's Wings—II
By Anthony Quinton
Hegel
by Raymond Plant
Indiana University Press, 214 pp., $7.95
Hegel's Political Philosophy
edited by Walter Kaufmann
Lieber-Atherton, 179 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Hegel's Political Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives
edited by Z.A. Pelczynski
Cambridge University Press, 246 pp., $15.50
Hegel's Philosophy of History
by Burleigh Taylor Wilkins
Cornell University Press, 196 pp., $7.50
Hegel's Theory of the Modern State
by Shlomo Avineri
Cambridge University Press, 252 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
by Alexandre Kojève, edited by Allan Bloom, translated by James H. Nichols Jr.
Basic Books, 287 pp., $8.95
The Young Hegelians
by William J. Brazill
Yale University Press, 305 pp., $13.50
The American Hegelians: An Intellectual Episode in the History of Western America
by William H. Goetzmann
Knopf, 327 pp., $15.00
From Marx to Hegel
by George Lichtheim
Seabury, 248 pp., $3.95 (paper)
In the first part of this article I discussed the current state of opinion about Hegel, his relation to previous philosophy, in particular that of Kant, and went on to consider his theory of knowledge or method and its most grandiose application in his general metaphysics. I concluded that recent studies of his account of the universe in general, even Ivan Soll's very good one,[1] had not succeeded in making clear what Hegel took the relations of Nature and Spirit to be, in particular whether Spirit should be conceived as something like the God of theism or rather as human mentality taken as a collective whole. I turn now to the application he makes of his dialectical method of reason to the specifically human subject matter of society, politics, and history. Here its implications are very much clearer and, if there has been vigorous controversy over what precisely they are, the issues in dispute, I shall suggest, are within reasonable distance of being settled.
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