Stephen and James,

thank you for the references.
Just looking at the intro of the lectures, it seems
these might contribute towards further understanding how far
Hegel actually did get with his Speculative Logic.

I will not get a copy right away, as
I'm writing up a theory of modality
that might even shed some light on
Hegel's understanding of it; since it is
inspired by his Speculative Logic.


Regards,

Paul Healey

--- On Mon, 16/3/09, Stephen Cowley <stephen.cowley@...> wrote:
From: Stephen Cowley <stephen.cowley@...>
Subject: Re: [hegel] Rosenkranz in French
To: hegel@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 16
March, 2009, 9:49 PM

Hi Paul and Bob,

Thanks for your kind words. As for Paul's question on the book on the
Proofs of God's existence, yes there is an English version - it is included
in Volume 3 of Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (trans. E B Spiers.
London: Routledge, NY: Humanities Press). I think the original appeared in the
1890s, but the edition I have is a reprint dated 1974.

I am writing a biography of one of Hegel's contemporaries at the moment for
a doctorate, so I will try and stick with Rosenkranz for a while for inspiration
and hopefully let you know how I get on.

All the best
Stephen Cowley


----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Healey
To: hegel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [hegel] Rosenkranz in French


Hello Stephen,

thank you for your scholarly input.
What I found very
interesting, is when you wrote:

>At the end of his life, Hegel wrote a work devoted to
>the proofs of
God's existence. "It is the determination of
>God that is at the origin
of the creative activity of the world"
> - of which the philosopher
describes the history in
>The Phenomenology of Spirit."

Can you give a reference for this work; has
it been published or reviewed in English?

Could you also tell me if there is any use
of his speculative method in his proof and criticisms
of existence proofs; considers the alternation of opposites
and their resolution within a relation?

Regards,

Paul Healey

--- On Sat, 14/3/09, Stephen Cowley <stephen.cowley@...>
wrote:
From: Stephen Cowley <stephen.cowley@...>
Subject: [hegel] Rosenkranz in French
To: hegel@yahoogroups.com

Date: Saturday, 14 March, 2009, 8:11 PM

Hi All,

On looking up Hegel literature recently, I discovered that the first
biography
of Hegel (1844), by Karl Rosenkranz (1805-79), was recently translated into
French by Pierre Osmo (Vie de Hegel, Paris: Gallimard, 2004). The second, by
Rudolf Haym also appeared in the same year (also Gallimard). Osmo's
translation has 731 pages, an index of names and appendices by Marheineke,
Foerster and Hotho. I gather it was put into Italian shortly before that. It
is interesting that the Latin languages are still ahead of English in this
respect, perhaps because of the proximity of these countries to Germany and
cultural interactions within Europe.

I've now had a change to look through the introduction by Osmo. I find
that Rosenkranz was not actually a direct pupil of Hegel, though he
associated
with him and his family quite closely in
Berlin in his early years and was
taught by Leopold von Henning, Hinrichs and Hotho, who were students of
Hegel.
However, he went on to teach in Koenigsberg (a successor to Kant and
contemporary of Herbart) and said this gave him a sense of distance in
writing
about Hegel, who had lived in Berlin. He had the co-operation of Hegel's
family and different levels of co-operation from other people in writing his
biography.

By background, Rosenkranz was a Calvinist (that is, Reformed church, as
opposed
to Lutheran). The general line he takes was influenced by Marheineke, who
edited Hegel's Lectures on Religion - in other words, he contradicts the
Left Hegelian line (of D Strauss, Feuerbach, etc) that Hegel was in some way
an
Atheist or Secular Humanist, who merely expressed himself in religious
imagery
to disguise the real content of his thought from himself or others.
However,
Rosenkranz does address Hegel's interest in pagan Greek literature in the
early parts of the biography. Rosenkranz also edited Kant's Works - it is
fair to say that he focuses on the transition from Kant to Hegel and
acknowledges as much, saying that it was inevitable in Koenigsberg!

He also uses other perspectives (e.g. the Pantheismusstreit and influence of
Spinoza) of a theological nature, that perhaps helps to explain why the early
reception of Hegel in English from the 1850s takes Hegel so seriously as a
theologian. Rosenkranz was also a critic of Schleiermacher - in which he
follows Hegel (roughly speaking).

The volume concludes with Rosenkranz's reply to Haym (1858). The book is
obviously the source of much that has since become commonplace in
biographical
writing on Hegel. Osmo discusses the biographical writings on Hegel of
Jacques
D'Hondt and the recent
German work of Horst Althaus in this respect.

There may be more to follow from me on this, but I'm afraid I may get
distracted, as I did with Hegel's 1831 Lectures on Logic.

You may also be interested to know that Hegel's review of Hamann has
recently been translated into English by LIsa Anderson.

All the best
Stephen Cowley

PS - French review of Osmo's translation from Le Figaro:
[my version] "The translation of Karl Rosenkranz's book which today
appears is an event. The author was chronologically the first biographer of
Hegel. He followed the courses of the thinker [this appears not to be true]
and
knew him personally. It was at the request of Hegel's family that he
wrote
his book, published in 1844. Rosenkranz was a singular Hegelian, as Pierre
Osmo
shows in his excellent preface.

[The book] is the most serious witness of a contemporary of the
thinker,
neither an exalter nor a detractor. Certainly, he did not know everything and
did not say all that he knew, but he keeps his distance with regard to the
neo-hegelians who fratricidally attacked each other speedily after the death
of
the philosopher. Later, when the latter was no longer fashionable, he took up
his defence in his Defence of Hegel against Dr Haym, who followed his
biography.


This biography reminds us that Hegel was deeply religious, which we tend to
forget nowadays. He never rejected his Protestant upbringing, which was not
so
gentle with the Catholics and the Jews. He thought that the Church and State
were the two pillars of society. "Religion constitutes the most intimate
unity of man, who comprehends everything under it." At the end of his
life, Hegel wrote a work devoted to the proofs of God's existence.
"It
is the determination of God that is at
the origin of the creative activity of
the world" - of which the philosopher describes the history in The
Phenomenology of Spirit."

"La traduction du livre de Karl Rosenkranz qui paraît aujourd'hui
est
un événement. L'auteur fut chronologiquement le premier biographe
de
Hegel. Il suivit les cours du penseur, le connut personnellement. C'est
Ã
la demande de la famille de Hegel qu'il rédigea son livre publié en
1844.
Rosenkranz était un hégélien singulier, comme le montre Pierre Osmo
dans son
excellente préface. C'est le témoignage le plus sérieux d'un
contemporain du penseur, ni chantre ni détracteur. Certes, il ne sait pas
tout
et ne dit pas tout ce qu'il sait, mais il garde ses distances Ã
l'égard des néohégéliens qui s'entre-tuent allégrement
après la
mort du philosophe. Plus tard, alors que ce dernier
n'était plus Ã
la
mode, il prendra sa défense dans son Apologie de Hegel contre le docteur
Haym,
qui suit sa biographie... Cette biographie nous rappelle que Hegel était
profondément religieux, ce que l'on a tendance à oublier
aujourd'hui.
Il n'avait jamais renié son éducation protestante, peu tendre avec
les
catholiques et les juifs. Il pensait que l'Eglise et l'Etat
étaient les
deux piliers de la société. «La religion constitue l'unité la
plus
intime de l'homme qui comprend tout sous elle.» A la fin de sa vie,
Hegel
écrivait un texte consacré aux preuves en faveur de l'existence de
Dieu.
«C'est la détermination de Dieu qui est à l'origine de
l'activité créatrice du monde» dont le philosophe décrit
l'histoire
dans La Phénoménologie de l'esprit...."

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