Jean Wahl and Hegel-scholarship in the Age of Existentialism (Part One)

The first edition of Wahl's book on Hegel.

This is the first of two posts on French Hegel-scholar Jean Wahl's work on Hegel in which he presents religion as more influential than political or economic struggle in Hegel's account of the development of self-conscious life.

From Mylne to Hegel (Part Two)

This post completes our two-part essay tracing the early reception of Hegel in Britain back to the influence of James Mylne.

Johannes Hoffmeister (1907-55), a Hegel Scholar in Paris

Friedrich Hölderlin, en commémorisation du centenaire de sa mort le 7 juin 1843. Ed. Hoffmeister. Paris: Sorlot, 1943.

This post reviews the above book on Friedrich Hölderlin, the German poet and friend of Hegel, edited by German Hegel scholar Johannes Hoffmeister and published in Paris in 1943 when Hoffmeister was teaching German literature there, with contributions from a range of German and French scholars, including Maurice Boucher and Martin Heidegger.