Walter Kaufmann
Hegel: Reinterpretation, Texts and Commentary.
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First edition. 498 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in red cloth-covered boards and gilt-lettered black cloth spine. Book is in excellent condition. Price-clipped dust jacket displays light shelfwear. Jacket design is by American artist Ben Shahn. This work offers an annotated bibliography.
"This book, the first intellectual biography of Hegel in English, is designed to acquaint the reader with the man and his philosophy and to place the discussion of Hegel on a new basis. Making abundant use of Hegel's many writings and letters that have only recently been published and of a great deal of hitherto untranslated material, Professor Kaufmann disposes once and for all of the popular image of the arch-professorial philosopher who had no personal life, lacked any understanding of the passions, and whose philosophy consisted of a rigid system in which everything was supposed to have a fixed place." (Dust jacket text).