Abstract

Hegel arrived injena early in 1801, freed from his tutorial duties by the inheritance he received upon the death of his father. There he aided Schelling in the editing of the Critical Journal of Philosophy, won a post at the university, published a series of long articles in the Journal and accumulated a pile of lecture notes which have seen the light of day only in our century. He departed from the town rather hastily in 1807 leaving behind a university closed as a result of Napoleon's victory over the forces of the Holy Roman Empire and a book, the Phenomenology of Spirit, finished on the eve of the battle.

It would seem easier to make sense out of Hegel's activities in this period than to come to grips with his writings from the Berne and Frankfurt periods.