Hegel's Career and Politics

This book focuses on G. W. F. Hegel's career and politics. The working assumption, which is illustrated throughout this study, is that his career and politics were intimately related and that this relationship tells us something significant about how he became a famous philosopher. What may be less obvious is why a topic on which much has been written needs to be reexamined. To answer this bluntly, the image of Hegel, both in terms of his career and politics, has been significantly...
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This book focuses on G. W. F. Hegel's career and politics. The working assumption, which is illustrated throughout this study, is that his career and politics were intimately related and that this relationship tells us something significant about how he became a famous philosopher. What may be less obvious is why a topic on which much has been written needs to be reexamined. To answer this bluntly, the image of Hegel, both in terms of his career and politics, has been significantly distorted in various ways, especially during the last eight or so decades.