Abstract

This long-awaited, much needed international Hegel bibliography has finally been published and, in terms of size and inclusiveness, lives up to the reputation which went before it. Although completeness is not claimed by Steinhauer, whatever is missing will be relatively little. The work is divided into two major parts, the first on Hegel’s own writings in their various editions, the second on secondary literature published between 1802 and 1975. There is a total of 12,032 entries of which 864 belong to the first section and the remainder to the second. But the work is even more massive than these numbers would suggest; for in the first section, for example, each edition of the collected works counts only as one item, while in the secondary literature section volumes containing collections of essays on Hegel - e.g. each volume of Hegel-Studien and its Beihefte, each volume of Hegel-Jahrbuch, or each issue of a journal devoted to Hegel - counts as only one entry. So the 12,032 is not accurate, the actual number being even greater. As a massive checklist, this work will never be surpassed.