Author

Publication

2011 - Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, California

Language

English

Word Count

50,500 words, Guess

Page Count

202 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivemourningsickness00coma
  • ISBN-100804761264
  • ISBN-100804761272
  • ISBN-139780804761260
  • ISBN-139780804761277
and 5 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010030288
  • OCLC Control Number630479800
  • Better World Books9780804761260
  • Better World Books9780804761277
  • Open LibraryOL25544463M

Classifications

  • DDC193
  • LCCB2948 .C575 2011
  • LCCB2948

Description

"This book explores Hegel's response to the French Revolutionary Terror and its impact on Germany. Like many of his contemporaries, Hegel was struck by the seeming parallel between the political upheaval in France and the upheaval in German philosophy inaugurated by the Protestant Reformation and brought to a climax by German Idealism. Many thinkers reasoned that a political revolution would be unnecessary in Germany, because this intellectual "revolution" had preempted it. Having already been through its own cataclysm, Germany would be able to extract the energy of the Revolution and channel its radicalism into thought. Hegel comes close to making such an argument too. But he also offers a powerful analysis of how this kind of secondhand history gets generated in the first place, and shows what is stake."--Publisher.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Cultural memory in the present

Other Editions

  • Mourning sickness: Hegel and the French RevolutionStanford University Press2011-01-01

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