Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition

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Cornell University Press, 2001 - 287 páginas

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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Hegel as Hermetic Thinker p
1
Scholarship on Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition p
4
What is Hermeticism? p
8
A Metaphysical View p
14
The Plan of This Book p
17
The Sorcerers Apprenticeship
19
A Brief Overview of the Hermetic Tradition 1 The Earliest Hermeticists p
21
Meister Eckhart p
23
Hegels Lehrjahre p
70
Pantheism Hölderlin and Schelling p
76
The Mythology of Reason 1 The Absolute Religion p
84
Speculation and Recollection p
88
Speculation as Mythic p
91
Further Parallels Between Speculation and Myth p
96
Imagination and the Symbolic Forms p
98
The Divine Triangle and the Triangle Diagram p
104

Nicholas of Cusa p
26
Renaissance and Reformation p
28
Agrippa p
30
Bruno p
33
Franck and Weigel p
34
Böhme p
36
The Hermetic Milieu of Hegels Early Years 1 Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry p
51
Goethe the Alchemist p
57
Swabian Pietism and F C Oetinger p
61
Summary of the Argument Thus Far p
119
Hegels Initiation Rite The Phenomenology of Spirit
127
The Kabbalistic Tree The Science of Logic
150
The Alchemists Laboratory The Philosophy
187
The Rose in the Cross of the Present
223
Bibliography p
259
Index p
279
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Glenn Alexander Magee is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University.

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