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The First German Philosopher - The Mysticism of Jakob Boehme as Interpreted by Hegel (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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The First German Philosopher - The Mysticism of Jakob Boehme as Interpreted by Hegel (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 217
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This book investigates Hegel's interpretation of the mystical
philosophy of Jakob Boehme (1575-1624), considered in the context
of the reception of Boehme in the 18th and 19th centuries, and of
Hegel's own understanding of mysticism as a philosophical approach.
The three sections of this book present: the historical background
of Hegel's encounter with Boehme's writings; the development of two
different conceptions of mysticism in Hegel's work; and finally
Hegel's approach to Boehme's philosophy, discussing in detail the
references to Boehme both in published writings and manuscripts.
According to Hegel, Boehme is "the first German philosopher". The
reason for placing Boehme at the very beginning of German
philosophy is that Hegel considers him to be a profound thinker,
despite his rudimentary education. Hegel's fascination with Boehme
mainly concerns the mystic's understanding of the symbiotic
relation between God and his opposite, the Devil: he considers this
to be the true speculative core of Boehme's thought. By
interpreting Boehme, Hegel intends to free the speculative content
of his thought from the limitations of the inadequate, barbarous
form in which the mystic expressed it, and also to liberate Boehme
from the prejudices surrounding his writings, placing him firmly in
the territory of philosophy and detaching him from the obscurity of
esotericism. Combining historical reconstructions and philosophical
argumentation, this book guides the reader through an important
phase in German philosophy, and ultimately into an inquiry about
the relationship between mysticism and philosophy itself.
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