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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Hegel : A Biography by Terry Pinkard
One of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most abstruse and impenetrable of thinkers. This major biography of Hegel offers not only a complete account of the life but also a perspicuous overview of the key philosophical concepts in Hegels work in a style that will be accessible to professionals and nonprofessionals alike. Terry Pinkard situates Hegel firmly in the historical context of his times. The story of that life is of an ambitious powerful thinker living in a period of great tumult dominated by the figure of Napoleon. The Hegel who emerges from this account is a complex fascinating figure of European modernity who offers us a still compelling examination of that new world born out of the political industrial social and scientific revolutions of his period.