W hen the Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said that his country needed more welders and fewer philosophers, most listeners took him to be taking an anti-intellectual jab at academe, at ...
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Robert Stern’s contribution to The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy on the broad subject of Hegel’s idealism is an effort to sort out precisely what the great German ...
In his day, 18th-century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was what we would call a “celebrity academic”, enjoying top university posts and a wide readership for his books. This might ...