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INTRODUCING guide to the hugely influential German thinker. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is one of the greatest thinkers of all time. No other philosopher has had such a profound impact on the ideas and political events of the 20th century. Hegels influential writings on philosophy, politics, history and art are parts of a larger systematic whole. They are also among the most difficult in the entire literature of philosophy. Introducing Hegel guides us through a spectacular system of thought which aimed to make sense of history. The book also provides new perspectives on contemporary postmodern debates about metanarratives (Lyotard) and the end of history (Fukuyama). It is an ideal introduction to this crucial figure in the history of philosophy, and is indispensable for anyone trying to understand such key modern thinkers as Marx, Lacan, Satre and Adorno.

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Hegel is a philosopher of awe-inspiring, monumental ambition. His philosophy aims to incorporate the history of all previous philosophies. He conceives of this entire history as a process of completion, as all of existence, indeed the cosmos itself, evolves to full self-consciousness.

There is no room in Hegels philosophy for a God outside or beyond the universe. His system presents itself not only as the self-consciousness of the cosmos, as Absolute Knowledge, but at the same time as an expression of the thoughts of God.

I believe that in the course of my own development as a philosopher I have - photo 2

I believe that in the course of my own development as a philosopher, I have recapitulated and given expression to the autobiography of the Absolute.

The Life

On 27 August 1770, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born at No. 53 Eberhardstrasse in Stuttgart.

Hegels father, Georg Ludwig, was a minor civil servant at the court of the Duchy of Wrttemberg. This area (Swabia) produced a surprising array of outstanding writers, philosophers and theologians. Hegel kept his broad sing-song Swabian inflection even when teaching at the University of Berlin.

Hegel was the eldest of three children His younger brother also named Georg - photo 3
Hegel was the eldest of three children His younger brother also named Georg - photo 4

Hegel was the eldest of three children. His younger brother, also named Georg Ludwig, became an army officer, participated in Napoleons Russian campaign and died young.

Hegels mother began his education in Latin before he went to school. She died when Hegel was just 11.

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Hegel appears to have kept on good terms with his father, until his student days, when his enthusiasm for the French Revolution opened up a rift between father and son.

Hegels Sister, Christiane

Hegel was very attached to his sister, Christiane. When Hegel set out his ideas on ethics, he did so by referring to Sophocles tragedy Antigone.

Christiane nursed a fierce attachment to her brother. After Hegels marriage (at age 40), Christiane suffered what Hegel would later call hysteria and had to resign from her post as governess. In 1820, she was committed to an asylum, but was released the following year. Troubled by bitterness over alleged wrongs, she gave vent to her jealousy of Hegels young wife.

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From it, I drew the lesson that a sisters love for a brother is the highest kind of love there is.

Foreseeing Psychotherapy?

Hegel suggested that therapy had to be dialectical: it had to involve sympathizing with the patients complaints, winning the trust of the disturbed. It would involve respecting the patients rational personality while at the same time overcoming the one-sidedness and abstraction of the patients fixed ideas.

But I also considered having Christiane treated by the French psychiatric - photo 7

But I also considered having Christiane treated by the French psychiatric reformer Philippe Pinel, whose new ideas had impressed me.

Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) came to prominence during the French Revolution as the liberator of the mad.

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Two weeks after Hegels death, Christiane wrote a courteous, formal letter to his widow and included a brief memoir of her brothers childhood in which she portrayed Hegel as a precocious and industrious schoolboy.

Lacked all bodily agility Must have been easy to get along with for he always - photo 9

Lacked all bodily agility. Must have been easy to get along with, for he always had many friends; loved to jump, but was utterly awkward in dancing lessons.

Within three months of her brothers death Christiane went out for a walk and - photo 10

Within three months of her brothers death, Christiane went out for a walk and drowned herself.

Hegels Education

Hegel gained a thorough grounding in the classics and was fluent in Latin and Greek. The Greek tragedies were his favourite reading matter. He was at home in German literature. His scientific training, too, was good for the times.

My teachers received no salary and were dependent on fees They attempted to - photo 11
My teachers received no salary and were dependent on fees They attempted to - photo 12

My teachers received no salary and were dependent on fees. They attempted to maximize class sizes (even 60 or more) of varying ages and abilities.

This may have been the origin of the belief Hegel later expressed in the necessity of active and independent learning.

The Excerpt Mill

Early on and throughout his life, Hegel recorded everything he studied. Aged fifteen, he began a diary (not of personal matters but of his studies and findings).

I developed a method of excerpting and abstracting and wrote out or - photo 13

I developed a method of excerpting and abstracting and wrote out (or summarized) long passages in notebooks I wanted to absorb everything!

Everything was grist to his excerpt mill philology and literary history, aesthetics, aphorisms and witticisms, experiences and physiognomics, mathematics, physics, psychology, pedagogy and, of course, philosophy. Hegel was already intellectually omnivorous. He wanted to absorb simply everything.

If, as is the case, the majority of quotations in Hegels mature works contain mistakes or are mistakenly attributed, this is because Hegel almost always quotes from memory. The range of material he had internalized is staggering.

Germany in Hegels time was a patchwork of tiny states (such as the Duchy of Wrttemberg where Hegel was born). There were no cities of any size and very little industry. In Prussia, serfdom was abolished, and the Jews emancipated, only after defeat by Napoleon. In 1765, James Hargreaves introduced the Spinning Jenny to England, but at the time of Hegels birth, Germanys industrialization still lay in the future. (The first German railway opened in 1835 four years after Hegels death.)

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