Key to our Hegel Biography

Here is a key to our Hegel biography, which is based largely on Karl Rosenkranz's Hegels Leben (1844) in the French edition by Pierre Osmo. It includes links to the individual chapters. Whilst we cannot compete with the books of Walter Kaufmann, Horst Althaus, Jacques D'Hondt or Terry Pinkard, we can claim an exposition refounded on the earliest source, Karl Rosenkranz. Hegel scholarship has corrected Rosenkranz on the dating and authorship of several early manuscripts and built on his indications of Hegel's role in society, but perhaps diverged for many years from the facts he set out, particularly on the politics of the Restoration period in Berlin.

Biography of Hegel

Adapted from Rosenkranz by Stephen Cowley

Part One
Early Life (1770-1800)

1. Karl Rosenkranz as a biographer and Hegel's early Life and Education
2. Hegel in Berne and Frankfurt

Part Two
Jena, Bamberg, Nuremberg and Heidelberg (1801-18)

3. The Early Logic, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Nature
4. Early Views of Religion
5. Hegel in Jena I: The Difference Essay and Critical Journal Articles
6. Hegel in Jena II: System, Notebooks and Students
7. Hegel in Bamberg
8. Hegel In Nuremberg
9. Brief Notes on the Science of Logic
10. First Edition of the Encyclopaedia
11. Hegel in Heidelberg

Part Three
Hegel in Berlin (1818-31)

12. Berlin (Part One)

13. The Philosophy of Right and Demagoguery

14. Goethe and Schopenhauer on Color

15. Schleiermacher and the Polemic against the Theology of Feeling

16. Hegel's Interest in Art

17. Berlin (Part Two)

18. Victor Cousin and Hegel

19. The Philosophy of History and the East

20. The Hegelian School and its Proselytism

21. Late Critical Essays

22. Later Editions of the Encyclopaedia

23. Late Political Thought

24. Berlin (Part Three) and Conclusion

In the above, I have generally created my own chapter headings, but followed the order of Rosenkranz as regards content.