Lectures on the Philosophy of World History

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

• ISBN13: 9780521281454
• ISBN10: 0521281458
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1981-01-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction Duncan Forbes

Translator's preface

Introduction

Preface

First draft

Second draft

Appendix

Notes

Index of names

Index of subjects.