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By Frederick C. Beiser

The Cambridge significant other to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel inside his broader ancient and philosophical contexts. protecting all significant points of Hegel's philosophy, the amount offers an creation to his common sense, epistemology, philosophy of brain, social and political philosophy, philosophy of nature and aesthetics. It comprises essays through an across the world well-known crew of Hegel students. the amount starts off with Terry Pinkard's article on Hegel's lifestyles, a conspectus of his biography on Hegel. It additionally explores a few new themes a lot ignored in Hegel scholarship: equivalent to Hegel's hermeneutics and courting to mysticism. aimed toward scholars and students of Hegel, this quantity may be crucial examining for somebody drawn to nineteenth-century philosophy. The up to date bibliography contains crucial English-language literature on Hegel written within the final fifteen years.

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The sole authority [for Protestants] is the intellectual and moral Bildung [education and cultural formation] of all, and the guarantors of such Bildung are these institutions . . ”12 Hegel’s newly elevated status in Nuremberg life even led to his marriage to a daughter of one of the oldest aristocratic patrician families in Nuremberg: the von Tucher family. The courtship leading up to the marriage was not itself without all the usual ups and downs and twists and turns that always seemed to accompany Hegel’s life, Marie was in fact twenty years younger than Hegel, and there was the fact that Hegel, a commoner with no “von” in his name, was marrying into a family much above his social estate.

Hegel’s own salary would go for months without being paid, he found himself having to take out loans until he was paid, he had to pay school expenses out of his pocket, and the various promises about reconstructing the physical infrastructure went unfulfilled for long periods of time. ”10 10 Briefe, I, 145; Letters, p. 190. Hegel: A Life 33 But he put himself to the task and brought order to the school. He managed to reorganize a demoralized teaching staff, shifting unproductive professors into other areas where they could do little harm (such as moving unproductive mathematics teachers into teaching religion), and he did this not only without antagonizing the faculty but in a way that earned him applause.

Niethammer was determined to use this Protestant institution as the centerpiece and showpiece of his educational reforms, and he thus put a lot of responsibility on Hegel’s shoulders. The beginning was not auspicious. The reformers in Bavaria, like many modern reformers, were more or less having to make up modern economic finance as they went along. Thus, at first and for quite a while, they actually had no real idea how much things cost and how the costs of many different things impacted on each other.

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