Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition

Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition
ISBN-10
0801474507
ISBN-13
9780801474507
Category
Body, Mind & Spirit
Pages
310
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Author
Glenn Alexander Magee

Description

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.

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