Karl Rosenkranz on Young Hegel in the Light of the Contemporary Critique on the Subject Matter The Analysis of Theses Presented in the First Complete Biography Ever Written About Hegel Cover Image

Karl Rosenkranz o mladom Hegelu u svjetlu suvremene kritike na temu Analiza teza iznesenih u prvoj cjelovitoj biografiji napisanoj o Hegelu
Karl Rosenkranz on Young Hegel in the Light of the Contemporary Critique on the Subject Matter The Analysis of Theses Presented in the First Complete Biography Ever Written About Hegel

Author(s): Mislav Žitko
Subject(s): Metaphysics, 19th Century Philosophy, German Idealism
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; system; Nachlass;

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the contribution of Hegel’s first biographer to the overall understanding of his work through the elaboration and analysis of theses and remarks related to the earliest roots of Hegel’s speculation in his youth, i.e. pre-Jena period and certainly the most problematic and least known phase of his philosophical worldview and written expression. The aim of this contribution is, on the one hand, to point out the inestimable importance of the content presented in this biographical overview, as well as the significance of the material consulted, on which the biography is based and which has survived only in a deficiently fragmented form. On the other hand, an important part of the research presented here consists of highlighting and correct historical and critical contextualization of certain inconsistencies and interpretive shortcomings, present in this first-ever written biography of Hegel, which had a significant impact on the subsequent understanding of the origin of the system and the dialectic in Hegel’s later and more mature speculation.

  • Issue Year: 43/2023
  • Issue No: 01/169
  • Page Range: 99-115
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Croatian