Hegel biography pinkard

Hegel scholar Pinkard (a professor of philosophy at Georgetown) presents his deep knowledge of the "paradigmatically obscure" German philosopher (1770-1831) to the broad reading public. Hegel himself would be pleased, for he saw himself as a public intellectual, offering up the only philosophy that could explain modern humanity to itself. Obscure language was merely the battering ram of his thought, provoking readers to shed their slavish acceptance of received tradition and learn to think for themselves. German traditionalists (and romantic nationalists) exemplified, in Hegel's memorable quip, not Deutschtum (Germanness) but Deutschdumm (German stupidity). Though Hegel praised the American Revolution (and the French--he was always keenly interested in politics), he could not have anticipated how inadequate a foundation American public education would lay for his ideas. In clear and modest language, Pinkard fills the breach between Hegelian Bildung (humanisti

Hegel biography pinkard and sons

Hegel biography pinkard pdf

Hegel biography pinkard wikipedia

Hegel biography pinkard von