Introduction à la lecture de Hegel [Book Review]

The Owl of Minerva 1 (4):4-5 (1970)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Hegel once described his Phänomenologie des Geistes as his voyage of discovery. He also said that the book contained a good deal of ballast which might be thrown overboard in a subsequent edition. Unfortunately, the unballasted edition which he was preparing at his death never appeared, and his readers are left with the original exploratory voyage, a voyage which seems to many of them to have been made mainly in the dark and through mists and fog. For this reason a commentary has long been desired, but it is really only in recent years that clues to some of the book’s difficulties have been made available through the publication of Hegel’s early manuscripts. Dilthey founded the modern critical study of Hegel by drawing attention to the theological writings of the philosopher’s Wanderjahre, and these were published by Nohl in 1907. It is a pity that J. B. Baillie seems to have overlooked them, for these indispensable aids to the study of the Phenomenology might have enabled him to improve the notes appended to his translation. Scarcely less important, however, are the Jena manuscripts published partly by Lasson in 1923 and partly by Hoffmeister in 1931–2. Armed with these reliquiae a scholar could approach the making of a commentary with fair confidence.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,593

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Analytics

Added to PP
2012-03-18

Downloads
47 (#298,872)

6 months
2 (#668,348)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references