{"product_id":"hegel-and-the-hermetic-tradition","title":"Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003ci\u003eOwl of Minerva\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlenn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHegel and the Hermetic Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e covers Hegel's philosophical corpus and shows that his engagement with Hermeticism lasted throughout his career and intensified during his final years in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eViewing Hegel as a Hermetic thinker has implications for a more complete understanding of the modern philosophical tradition, and German idealism in particular. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54222539096408,"sku":"9780801474507","price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780801474507.jpg?v=1781674234","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/hegel-and-the-hermetic-tradition","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}