Works by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Works by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Name	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Birth date	1770-08-27
Death date	1831-11-14
Era	German Idealism
Region	Germany
Main interests	Metaphysics, Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of History, Political philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion
Notable works	Phenomenology of Spirit, Science of Logic, Elements of the Philosophy of Right

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Works by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel produced a corpus that reshaped German Idealism, influenced Marxism, informed British Idealism, and impacted debates in continental philosophy, analytic philosophy, and theology. His publications, lectures, manuscripts, and editorial projects intersect with figures such as Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schelling, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Arthur Schopenhauer, Alexis de Tocqueville, and institutions including the University of Jena, University of Heidelberg, and University of Berlin.

Major published works

Hegel's core publications include the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), Science of Logic (1812–1816), Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817, 1827, 1830), and Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820), which together dialogues with Immanuel Kant, Hegel's contemporaries such as Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Friedrich Hölderlin, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and critics like Arthur Schopenhauer. The Phenomenology engages the intellectual contexts of French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, and thinkers including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Georg Forster, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Science of Logic converses with traditions from Aristotle and Plato through references implicit in Hegelian method adopted by students like Vasily Rozanov and later expositors such as Alexandre Kojève and Robert Brandom. The Encyclopaedia editions and the Elements shaped legal and political debates involving figures like Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, and institutions including the Prussian Ministry of Education.

Hegel's published lecture series—on Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Religion, Aesthetics, Natural Philosophy, Logic, and Practical Philosophy—were delivered at the University of Jena, University of Heidelberg, and University of Berlin and attracted students such as Karl Rosenkranz, Ludwig Feuerbach, Bruno Bauer, Friedrich Engels, and Moses Hess. Surviving student notes and editions relate to Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling's pedagogical milieu, the German Confederation intellectual sphere, and later editorial projects by Wilhelm Dilthey, Georg Lasson, and Eduard Gans. Lecture texts address historical actors and institutions including August Wilhelm Schlegel, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Thomas Carlyle, G. H. Lewes, and international receptions in Russia, France, England, and United States academies.

Hegel left substantial unpublished manuscripts, early essays, and lecture drafts that circulated among contemporaries like Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich Schelling, and later scholars Kuno Fischer and Werner Marx. These papers contain engagements with sources such as Christian Wolff, Johann Gottfried Herder, Baruch Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes, Niccolò Machiavelli, David Hume, and archival traces in collections at institutions like the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Goethe University Frankfurt archives. Unpublished drafts illuminate Hegel's responses to events including the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt, the Congress of Vienna, and correspondences with figures such as Caroline Bauer and administrators in the Prussian civil service.

Critical editions and translations have mediated Hegel's texts across languages and schools: German critical editions by Georg Lasson, Walter Kaufmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Carové's manuscripts, and modern Gesamtausgaben edited by Hermann Glockner and the Sämtliche Werke projects. Key English translators and editors include A. V. Miller, J. N. Findlay, H. S. Harris, J. B. Baillie, T. M. Knox, Charles Taylor, John B. Stewart, Michael Inwood, and Stephen Houlgate, while French translators like Alexandre Matheron and Jean Hyppolite shaped Hegel reception in France. Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese editions engaged translators and editors linked to intellectuals such as Antonio Gramsci, György Lukács, Alexander Herzen, Liang Shuming, and publishing houses connected to the Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Presses Universitaires de France.

Hegel's oeuvre influenced diverse movements and figures: the development of Marxism through Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; Existentialism via Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche; Phenomenology via Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger; and Analytic philosophy interactions with Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore. His aesthetics impacted critics like Walter Benjamin and artists in the Romanticism circle including Caspar David Friedrich, Friedrich Hölderlin, and E. T. A. Hoffmann. Political theorists such as John Rawls, Isaiah Berlin, Alexis de Tocqueville, and legal scholars in Prussia examined Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Hegelian scholarship spans institutions and movements in Germany, France, Russia, Italy, England, United States, and Japan, informing contemporary debates in political theory, religious studies, literary criticism, and historical methodology.