By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
. . . eminently readable . . . admirably alternatives up the spirit of what Hegel is asserting. . . . extra readable and exact than Hartmann's, and it translates a extra readable textual content than does Nisbet's. It contains (as Hartmann's doesn't) an excerpt, which serves as bankruptcy 5, from 'The Geographical foundation of background' (particularly attention-grabbing for what it says of America), and a short bankruptcy six, entitled 'The department of History.' the amount closes with an appendix, translating §§341–360 of Hegel’s Philosophy of correct and offers at once with the very idea of 'World History.' It constitutes a tremendous assist in coming to grips with what Hegel capacity by means of 'Spirit.' --Quentin Lauer, SJ, Fordham college, in International Philosophical Quarterly
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