Hegel

One of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most abstruse and impenetrable of thinkers. This first major biography of Hegel in English offers not only a complete up-to-date account of the life but also an overview of the key philosophical concepts in Hegel''s work in an accessible style. Terry Pinkard situates Hegel firmly in the historical context of his times. The story of that life is of an ambitious powerful thinker living in a period of great tumult dominated by the figure of Napolean. Pinkard explores Hegel''s interactions with some of the great minds of this period: Hlderlin Goethe Humboldt Schelling Novalis the Schlegels Mendelssohn and others. Throughout he avoids Hegal''s own famously technical jargon in order to display the full sweep and power of Hegel''s thought. Terry Pinkard is professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and is author/editor of five previous books the most recent being ^UHegel''s Phenomenology (Cambridge 1996). He is honorary Professor of the Philosophy Faculty of Tbingen University Germany and serves on the advisory board for the Zeitschrift fr Philosophique Forschung.