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- ISBN 9780801474507
- Weight: 907g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jun 2008
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"The organization of the text is first class, the reading of Hegel's texts sensitive and perspicacious, and the writing poised, even elegant. This would be a fine book for a scholar at any stage of his or her career. For a first book it is absolutely exceptional."—Owl of Minerva
Glenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermetic tradition, a body of thought with roots in Greco-Roman Egypt. Magee traces the influence on Hegel of such Hermetic thinkers as Baader, BÖhme, Bruno, and Paracelsus, and fascination with occult and paranormal phenomena.
Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition covers Hegel's philosophical corpus and shows that his engagement with Hermeticism lasted throughout his career and intensified during his final years in Berlin.
Viewing Hegel as a Hermetic thinker has implications for a more complete understanding of the modern philosophical tradition, and German idealism in particular.
Glenn Alexander Magee is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University.
