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Hegel’s philosophy has been the object of historical study since Rosenkranz published his biography in 1843.1 Dilthey’s monumental work2 on Hegel’s life, which gave new impetus to the interest in Hegel as Neo-Kantianism was waning, began a long series of studies concerning the history of Hegel’s development.3 All of these works set themselves the task of discovering through an understanding of textual origin the “Secret of Hegel,” which systematic interpretation of the texts had been unable to solve. We are indebted to this research, which soon will be controllable only by specialists, for the great progress which it has made toward its goal. However, we still have a long way to go.
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Karl Rosenkranz, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s Life, 1843, Reprint Darmstadt, 1963.
Wilhelm Dilthey, Die Jugendgeschichte Hegels, 1906, in Gesammelte Werke, Band IV.
The best outline of this literature is to be found in Carmelo Lacorte, Il primo Hegel, (Firenze, 1961).
In this sketch I refrain from naming the sources, which are primarily to be found in Emile.
Kant’s Works, AA, XV, Reflections 4256, 4375.
RiGbV, long footnote to the preface of the first issue: “Den Schlüssel zur Auflösung dieser Aufgabe, soviel ich davon einzusehen glaube …”
CPR, p. 841, B. See further reference in my “Der Begriff der sittlichen Einsicht und Kants Lehre vom Faktum der Vernunft” in: Die Gegenwart der Griechen im neueren Denken (Tübingen, 1960).
Reflexion 6432, GzMdS, AA, p. 450.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Werke, edited by Manfried Schröter (München: C. H. Beck und R. Oldenbourg, 1927), I, pp. 1-43.
Memorabilien, a philosophical-theological newspaper of history and philosophy of religions… first issue, Jena, 1791.
Letters from and to Hegel, I, 11.
“Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians” (unpublished), p. 2.
“Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans” (unpublished), p. 61.
“Friedrich Gedike und sein Bericht an Friedrich Wilhelm II,” mitgeteilt von Richard Fester, I. Ergänzungsheft des Archivs für Kulturgeschichte, Berlin 1905.
Letters from and to Hegel, I, 14.
Ibid. “Wer mag sich im Staub des Altertums begraben, wenn ihn der Geist seiner Zeit alle Augenblicke wieder auf und mit sich fortreisst.”
Compare: Henrich “Leutwein über Hegel,” Hegelstudien III, 1965, pp. 57, 72.
All quotations from letters to Niethammer 1790/91 (private poss.). Compare Henrich and Johann Ludwig Doederlein, Carl Immanuel Diez, in: Hegelstudien, Band III, 1965, pp. 276-287.
Süsskinds Briefe an Diez (Handschriftenabteilung der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen); D. Gottlob Christian Storrs Bemerkungen über Kants philosophische Religionslehre, aus dem Lateinischen, nebst einigen Bemerkungen des Übersetzers über den aus Prinzipien der praktischen Vernunft hergeleiteten Überzeugungsgrund von der Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit einer Offenbarung in Beziehung auf Fichtes Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung (Tübingen, 1794).
Vom Ich als Prinzip der Philosophie, WW ed. Schröter I 75 sq. pages 120-26 are written in direct reference to the Tübingen orthodoxy.
HtJ, p. 238.
Ibid.
Letters from and to Hegel, I, 22.
HtJ, pp. 374-77. I propose to regard pages 376/77 as independent text. Compare Gisela Schüler, “Zur Chronologie von Hegels Jugendschriften,” Hegelstudien II, 1963, p. 131.
Ibid., p. 376.
All evidences to be found in Dieter Henrich Hölderlin über Urteil und Sein, Hölderlinjahrbuch 1965/66, pp. 73-96.
Letters from and to Hegel I, 38.
“Leutwein über Hegel,” p. 56. Compare HtJ, p. 6 and others.
HtJ, p. 208.
Compare Kant’s essay “Was heisst sich im Denken orientieren?” of the year 1786.
A more detailed analysis of what I have to say here with regard to Bultmann and Jaspers may be found in my Jaspers and Bultmann: A Dialogue Between Philosophy and Theology in the Existentialist Tradition (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1968).
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Henrich, D., Scott, C.E., Long, E.T. (1970). Some Historical Presuppositions of Hegel’s System. In: Christensen, D.E. (eds) Hegel and the Philosophy of Religion. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9152-4_2
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