Hegel : the philosopher of freedom

Vieweg, Klaus, 1953- author.

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"A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most famous man of the age, Goethe directed him to Georg Friederich Wilhelm Hegel. Hegel, the most famous figure in modern philosophy, arguably its father, believed that to philosophize is to learn to live freely. He was slow and cautious in the development of his philosophy; yet his intellectual...

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ISBN:

9781503630574

Description:

xii, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Hegel. English

Notes:

"Originally published in German in 2019 under the title Hegel: der Philosoph der Freiheit."
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

The beloved hometown : growing up in Stuttgart, 1770-1788
A student at the Protestant seminary : Tübingen, 1788-1793
A private tutor of a patrician family : Switzerland, 1793-1796
From a mosaic of fragments to the cornerstone of a system : Frankfurt, 1797-1800
The birth of absolute idealism : Jena 1801-1807
The political journalist : Bamberg, 1807-1808
The first humanistic gymnasium and The science of logic : Nuremberg, 1808-1816
The owl of Minerva on the Neckar : Heidelberg, 1816-1818
The "great center" : becoming world-famous in Berlin, 1818-1831

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2023018076

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3317400

Other Authors:

Kottman, Sophia, translator

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