Hegel: Religion, Economics, and the Politics of Spirit, 1770–1807 (Ideas in Context, Series Number 6)

This major study of Hegel's intellectual development up to the writing of The Phenomonology of Spirit argues that his work is best understood in the context of the liberalisation of German Protestantism in the eighteenth century. The purpose of Part I of this study is to identify the religious and political threads of meaning that eighteenth-century Wurttemberg Protestants wove into a seamless web that had "meaning creating significance" for the culture of Old-Wurttemberg as a whole.