Hegel came to maturity as a philosopher during the first years
of the nineteenth century, developing through prodigious
intellectual struggles a highly original conception of dialectic as
a method for rationally comprehending traumatic historical change.
At the same time, he continued a process begun earlier, of critical
engagement with the Christian gospel and its historical ethos.
Hegel spent much of his youth reacting against this drama and its
cultural expression. By the time he published his early
masterpiece, the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), he had found an
ingenious way of reconstructing it in counterpoint with his new
dialectical understanding of historical experience.
Dialectic and Gospel in the Development of Hegel's Thinking
tells the story of this interplay as it develops in Hegel's
thinking. It culminates in a fresh interpretation of the
Phenomenology of Spirit and a detailed commentary on larger
portions of the text relevant to that story. Crites's reading of
the masterpiece is contextualized by three substantial chapters
detailing the course of Hegel's reflections on Christian themes
through the first thirty-five years of his life. These chapters are
both biographical and textual, treating not only the philosopher's
personal and intellectual development but also the major cultural
influences that informed it. Hegel is seen to have begun as a child
of the Enlightenment powerfully, affected by the Romantic reaction
to the Enlightenment, who finds his way to his own position as a
founding genius of German Idealism and its historical dialectic.
His development is thus interpreted as an epitome of a major
transformation in European intellectual history.
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