The Philosophy of History

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0486437558 ISBN13: 9780486437552 Release Date: September 2004 Publisher: Dover Publications Length: 457 Pages Weight: 0.95 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.3" Hegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the "philosophy of history" -- a novel concept in the early nineteenth century. With this work, he created the history of philosophy as a scientific study. He reveals philosophical theory as neither an accident nor an artificial construct, but as an exemplar of its age, fashioned by its antecedents and contemporary circumstances, and serving as a model for the future. The author himself appears to have regarded this book as a popular introduction to his philosophy as a whole, and it remains the most readable and accessible of all his philosophical writings.Eschewing the methods of original history (written during the period in question) and reflective history (written after the period has passed),