Major Works

• Lectures on the History of Philosophy

  - Recommended edition: Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Humanity Books, 1989.
  From the publisher: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was not only a great philosopher but a great historian of philosophy. He invented the idea of the philosophical tradition as a discussion among philosophers extending over centuries centering on a few main… More

Commentary

• Reason and Revolution

  - Marcuse, Herbert. Reason and Revolution, new edition. Boston, 1960.
  Excerpt: Any recognition of individual freedom consequently seemed to involve tearing down the ancient democracy. ‘That very subjective freedom which constitutes the principle and determines the peculiar form of freedom in our world – which forms… More

• La Philosophie Politique de Hegel

  - Fleischmann, Eugene. La philosophie politique de Hegel, Paris, 1964.

• Introduction a la Philosophie Politique de Hegel

  - Hyppolite, Jean.  Introduction a la philosophie politique de Hegel, Paris, 1964.

• Idealism, Politics and History

  - Kelly, George Armstrong. Idealism, Politics and History. Cambridge, 1969.
  Excerpt: [Hegel] aspired to be the Aristotle of modern thought and the Proclus of Christian speculation. His deep involvement in the structure of knowledge and the rationale of all historical life – whose qualitative opposition he mediated with his… More

• Hegel’s Political Philosophy

  - Kaufmann, Walter, ed. Hegel’s Political Philosophy, New York, 1970.
  Excerpt: 8. The State When Hegel speaks of “the State” he does not mean every state encountered in experience. Immediately after first offering his epigram about the rational and actual, he himself continued: What matters is this: to recognize in… More

• Hegel’s Political Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives

  - Pelczynski, Z. Ed. Hegel’s Political Philosophy. Cambridge, 1971.
  The following excerpt is from the editor’s own essay, “The Hegelian conception of the state.” It is noteworthy that the concept of the state as Hegel first elaborated it has all the clarity and simplicity of Hobbes’… More

• Hegel’s Theory of the Modern State

  - Shlomo Avineri, Hegel's Theory of the Modern State, Cambridge University Press, 1974.
  […] Hegel has to be seen as the first major modern political philosopher who attempted to confront the realities of the modern age. While many among eighteenth-century philosophers undoubtedly helped to shape the emergent modern world, their basically… More

• The Young Hegel

  - Lukacs, Georg. The Young Hegel, tr. Rodney Livingston. London, 1975.
  Excerpt: The present analysis of Hegel’s economic views will confirm the accuracy of Marx’s observations, both in their positive and in their negative aspects. Hegel did not produce a system of economics within his general philosophy, his ideas were… More

• Hegel (Charles Taylor)

  - Charles Taylor, Hegel, Cambridge University Press, 1975.
  […] In fact, our difficulties just begin when we accept the central role of reason; and it was these difficulties which motivated [the Romantics] in turning away from it to fantasy, invention, and art. For if we abandon the view of spirit as endless… More

• Hegel’s Retreat from Eleusis

  - Kelly, George Armstrong. Hegel’s Retreat from Eleusis. Princeton, 1978.
  Excerpt: We do not know whether Hegel read Fichte’s incendiary tract against the German Burkeans, but it seems likely that he did, since it was, to say the least, hot copy among young intellectuals. In any case, the contemporary associations of lordship… More

• Hegel and Modern Society

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  Taylor, Charles. Hegel and Modern Society. Cambridge, 1979.

  Excerpt: Against [expressivism], Herder and others developed an alternative notion of man whose dominant image was rather tha of an expressive object. Human life was seen as having a unity rather analogous to that of a work of art, where every part or aspect… More

• Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History

  - Gillespie, Michael Allen. Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History, Chicago, 1984.
  Excerpt: From Antinomy to Dialectic Hegelian philosophy is fundamentally dialectical. The meaning and character of this dialectical essence, however, arises out of Hegel’s reception and transformation of Kant’s antinomy doctrine. While his… More

• Hegel’s Critique of the Enlightenment

  - Hinchman, Lewis. Hegel’s Critique of the Enlightenment, Gainsville 1984.
  Excerpt: … [I]nternal democracy does not have an intrinsic value for Hegel. He portrays it as an arena for caprice and subjective opinion that, in spite of their relative justification as an expression of subjective freedom, are mainly exercised in… More

• Hegel’s Critique of Liberalism

  - Smith, Steven B. Hegel’s Critique of Liberalism. Chicago and London, 1989.
  Excerpt: My purpose here is… to examine the genesis of the critique of rights-based liberalism in the philosophy of Hegel. One advantage of this approach is that as a critic of liberalism in at least its early modern or classic form, Hegel provides us… More

• Hegel’s Ethical Thought

  - Wood, Allen. Hegel’s Ethical Thought, Cambridge, 1990
  Excerpt: 5. Does Hegel have an ethics? It is sometimes said, by Hegel’s sympathizers as well as his detractors, that Hegel’s system contains no “ethics” at all, that for Hegel moral philosophy is “dissolved in sociology” or… More

• Hegel (Frederick Beiser)

  - Beiser, Frederick. Hegel, 2005.
  Excerpt: These religious and political controversies within the Hegelian school were not so easily resolvable because they involved an apparently intractable problem in the interpretation of Hegel’s metaphysics. Namely, what is the nature of… More

• Hegel’s Practical Philosophy

  - Pippin, Robert. Hegel’s Practical Philosophy, Cambridge, 2008.
  Excerpt: … What is important, Antigone implicitly asserts, is what one claims for oneself, what sort of recognition one demands; that the issue of the status of Polyneices as a family member as well as citizen is not independently real, a mere… More

Multimedia

• Hegel: The Philosophy of History

  - Leo Strauss, "Seminar in Political Philosophy: Hegel’s The Philosophy of History," 1965,  The Leo Strauss Project.

• Slavoj Zizek: Return to Hegel

  - Slavoj Zizek, Return to Hegel, Lecture at European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, 2009.  
  Slavoj Žižek speaking about Hegel and Hegelian concepts of history and historicity, drawing not only on the works of Marxs Grundrisse and Jacques Lacan, but also on opera, Schoenberg’s atonal revolution, the experience of impossibility, Freud’s… More

• From Hegel to Marx: What Went Wrong?

  - Terry Pinkard, From Hegel to Marx: What Went Wrong?