Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Volume II The Lectures of 1830–1831

This edition makes available an entirely new version of Hegel's lectures on the development and scope of world history. Volume II presents Hegel's surviving manuscripts of his introduction to the lectures and the full transcription of the second series of lectures (1830-31). Hegel lectured several times on the philosophy of world history. His manuscripts of the introduction and transcriptions (by Griesheim and Hotho) of the Lectures of 1822-23 were published by OUP in 2011, based on critical editions prepared by Walter Jaeschke. Now the Lectures of 1831, from a transcription made by Karl Hegel (the philosopher's son), also edited by Jaeschke, are appearing in English. Brown and Hodgson's new translation is an essential resource for the English reader, and provides a fascinating account of the world as it was conceived by one of history's most influential philosophers. The Editorial Introduction surveys the history of the texts and provides an analytic summary of them, and editorial footnotes introduce readers to Hegel's many sources and allusions. For the first time an edition of these lectures is made available that permits critical scholarly study, one which translates to the needs of the general reader.

1 - The Philosophy of World History: Preliminary
2 - The Chinese Empire
3 - India
4 - The Persian Empire
5 - Egypt
6 - The Greeks
7 - The Romans
8 - The Germanic Realm

Robert F. Brown was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. He is the editor of Hegel: Lectures on the History of Philosophy, published in three volumes by Oxford University Press. Brown graduated from DePauw University (BA) and Columbia University (PhD). Peter C. Hodgson is Charles G. Finney Professor of Theology Emeritus, at Divinity School, Vanderbilt University. He is the series editor of Oxford Hegel Lectures. Hodgson studied for his AB degree at Princeton University and his BD degree at Yale Divinity School, and he completed his MA and PhD at Yale University.