Volume 22, Number 9 · May 29, 1975
Spreading Hegel's Wings
By Anthony Quinton
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
Studies on Marx and Hegel
by Jean Hyppolite, translated by John O'Neill
Basic Books, 202 pp., $6.50
Hegel: A Collection of Critical Essays
edited by Alasdair MacIntyre
Doubleday, 348 pp., $2.50 (paper)
Hegel's Theory of the Modern State
by Shlomo Avineri
Cambridge University Press, 252 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Hegel
by Raymond Plant
Indiana University Press, 214 pp., $7.95
Introduction to Hegel's Metaphysics
by Ivan Soll
University of Chicago Press, 160 pp., $2.25 (paper)
Hegel's Idea of Philosophy
by Quentin J. Lauer S.J.
Fordham, 159 pp., $4.50 (paper)
Hegel's Concept of Experience
by Martin Heidegger, translated by Albert Hofstadter
Harper and Row, 155 pp., $5.00
The Religious Dimension in Hegel's Thought
by Emil Fackenheim
Indiana University Press, 274 pp., $9.50
Hegel's Science of Logic
translated by A.V. Miller
Humanities Press, 844 pp., $21.00
Hegel's reputation in the English-speaking world was at its lowest ebb in 1945. That was the year of Russell's History of Western Philosophy, with its genially dismissive treatment of Hegel, and of the stormy invective of the Hegel chapter in Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies. In Britain the last embers of resistance to analytic philosophy, itself inaugurated at the turn of the century by Russell and Moore in total rejection of British neo-Hegelianism, had been stamped out. Collingwood had been dead for three years and had left no visible disciples. Idealism had, indeed, one distinguished exponent, the immaculately courteous and stylish Brand Blanshard at Yale. But his loyalty was not so much to Hegel as to F.H. Bradley, the most original and Hegelianly unorthodox of late-nineteenth-century British idealists, who, in fact, respectfully disowned Hegel. Like Bradley, Blanshard was more a critic of empiricism than a constructive practitioner of speculative philosophy. In all branches of philosophy Hegel's ideas were not thought worth consideration even as an exemplary form of error, except in political philosophy, a field which analytic philosophers avoided and whose controversies thus proceeded, to the extent that they proceeded at all, in the idiom of an earlier age.
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