
Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of World History
The Essentials
Thomas L. Pangle(Author)
Cornell University Press
Will be published approx. on 15. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-5017-8458-3 (ISBN)
Description
Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of World History brings together the works of Georg W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), one of the greatest philosophers of history, who, prior to his death, did not execute a treatise setting forth his philosophy of world history. All that remains are fragmented and truncated manuscript materials and meticulous student transcripts from his lectures on the philosophy of world history, which are assembled in this book to present what Hegel might call the "essential phases" or "moments" in his philosophy of world history as an articulated, unfolding, organic whole.
Drawing from historical-critical editions, Thomas L. Pangle has compiled a range of passages that provide the fullest and clearest expression of Hegel's teachings on the philosophy of history as divine reason expressing itself dynamically in the whole of existence. Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of World History provides lucid, vivid, and concrete access to Hegel's political philosophy, as the most ambitious and thorough attempt to demonstrate that world history overall, starting with ancient China and India, exhibits God's providence for humanity as a truly rational divine plan.
Drawing from historical-critical editions, Thomas L. Pangle has compiled a range of passages that provide the fullest and clearest expression of Hegel's teachings on the philosophy of history as divine reason expressing itself dynamically in the whole of existence. Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of World History provides lucid, vivid, and concrete access to Hegel's political philosophy, as the most ambitious and thorough attempt to demonstrate that world history overall, starting with ancient China and India, exhibits God's providence for humanity as a truly rational divine plan.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 151 mm
Width: 230 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
438 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-8458-3 (9781501784583)
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01/2026
Cornell University Press
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Thomas L. Pangle is Joe R. Long Endowed Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, Codirector of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas, and Lifetime Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Content
1. Hegel's Introduction
2. The Oriental World, Part One: China
3. The Oriental World, Part Two: India
4. The Oriental World, Part Three: Persia
5. The Oriental World, Part Four: Egypt
6. The Greek World
7. The Roman World
8. The Germanic World
9. The Last Stage of World-history
2. The Oriental World, Part One: China
3. The Oriental World, Part Two: India
4. The Oriental World, Part Three: Persia
5. The Oriental World, Part Four: Egypt
6. The Greek World
7. The Roman World
8. The Germanic World
9. The Last Stage of World-history