Hegel’s Odyssey
Geoffrey Hawthorn, 3 October 1985
Hegel: The Letters
translated by Clark Butler and Christine Seiler.
Indiana, 740 pp., $47.50, January 1985,0 253 32715 6 Show More
translated by Clark Butler and Christine Seiler.
Indiana, 740 pp., $47.50, January 1985,
“... Ottilie von Goethe recalled a lunch in Weimar in October 1827. Her father-in-law, as usual, had not bothered with the introductions. Silent bows on both sides. During the meal Goethe was comparatively quiet. No doubt so as not to disturb the free speech of his very voluble and logically penetrating guest, who elaborated upon himself in oddly complicated grammatical forms ... ”
