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Hegel

Klaus Vieweg

Philosopher of Freedom

Every year on July 14th, Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel is said to have raised a glass of champagne to the Storming of the Bastille. The French Revolution was the event that shaped his life and his thought. The idea of freedom remains the central theme throughout the life and work of the greatest philosopher of the nineteenth century.

For Hegel’s 250thbirthday, we are publishing the first comprehensive German language biography of the philosopher in 175 years. After his childhood and youth in Stuttgart, and his university studies in neighbouring Tübingen, the young philosopher initially spent time in Bern and in Frankfurt as a private tutor. His academic career began when he became a tutor at Jena, were he worked with his former fellow student Schelling. After two further intervals in Franconia, he was called to Heidelberg. In 1818 finally Hegel took the chair of his predecessor Johann Gottlieb Fichte at Berlin, the centre of royal Prussia, were he rose to become the most significant philosopher of the age. 

Klaus Vieweg, philosopher at the University of Jena, draws a vivid new picture of the most important exponent of German idealism, giving equal room to his life and work.

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Published by C.H.Beck , ISBN: 9783406742354

Main content page count: 900 Pages

ISBN: 9783406742354