Lectures on the Philosophy of World History

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hugh Barr Nisbet, Duncan Forbes

Overview

An English translation of Hegel's introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history, based directly on the standard German edition by Johannes Hoffmeister, first published in 1955. The previous English translation, by J. Sibree, first appeared in 1857 and was based on the defective German edition of Karl Hegel, to which Hoffmeister's edition added a large amount of new material previously unknown to English readers, derived from earlier editors. In the introduction to his lectures, Hegel lays down the principles and aims which underlie his philosophy of history, and provides an outline of the philosophy of history itself. The comprehensive and voluminous survey of world history which followed the introduction in the original lectures is of less interest to students of Hegel's thought than the introduction, and is therefore not included in this volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521205665
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/03/1975
Series:	Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	5.79(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.91(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction Duncan Forbes; Translator's preface; Introduction; Preface; First draft; Second draft; Appendix; Notes; Index of names; Index of subjects.