Baffled Traveller
Jonathan Rée: Hegel, 30 November 2000
Hegel: An Intellectual Biography
by Horst Althaus, translated by Michael Tarsh.
Polity, 292 pp., £45, May 2000,0 7456 1781 6 Show More
by Horst Althaus, translated by Michael Tarsh.
Polity, 292 pp., £45, May 2000,
Hegel: Biographie
by Jacques D'Hondt.
Calmann-Lévy, 424 pp., frs 150, October 1998,2 7021 2919 6 Show More
by Jacques D'Hondt.
Calmann-Lévy, 424 pp., frs 150, October 1998,
“... During the 1790s the little town of Jena, in Saxony, blossomed into colourful activity. With active support from Goethe, ducal minister in nearby Weimar, the ancient university cast off its reputation for beery rowdiness and intellectual torpor. Schiller was given a post there in 1789, and Fichte in 1794, and their passionate lectures – delivered in German rather than the customary Latin – soon attracted audiences from all over Germany, and from France and Britain as well ... ”
