On the Episode of the Mahabharata Known by the Name Bhagavad-Gita

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

PRESENTS G.W.F. HEGEL'S REVIEW OF WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT'S LECTURES ON THE BHAGAVAD-GITA.

151 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 1995

About the author

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher and one of the founding figures of German Idealism. Influenced by Kant's transcendental idealism and Rousseau's politics, Hegel formulated an elaborate system of historical development of ethics, government, and religion through the dialectical unfolding of the Absolute. Hegel was one of the most well-known historicist philosopher, and his thought presaged continental philosophy, including postmodernism. His system was inverted into a materialist ideology by Karl Marx, originally a member of the Young Hegelian faction.