Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution

by Rebecca Comay

Book Overview

This book explores Hegel's response to the French Revolutionary Terror and its impact on Germany. Like many of his contemporaries, Hegel was struck by the seeming parallel between the political upheaval in France and the upheaval in German philosophy inaugurated by the Protestant Reformation and brought to a climax by German Idealism. Many thinkers reasoned that a political revolution would be unnecessary in Germany, because this intellectual "revolution"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804761272
• ISBN13: 9780804761277
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"