Hegel And The Hermetic Tradition Av Glenn Alexander Magee

<p><b>"The organization of the text is first class, the reading of Hegel''s texts sensitive and perspicacious, and the writing poised, even elegant. This would be a fine book for a scholar at any stage of his or her career. For a first book it is absolutely exceptional."</b>—<i>Owl of Minerva</i></p> <p>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.</p> <p><b><i>Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition</i></b> covers Hegel''s philosophical corpus and shows that his engagement with Hermeticism lasted throughout his career and intensified during his final years in Berlin.</p> <p><b>Viewing Hegel as a Hermetic thinker has implications for a more complete understanding of the modern philosophical tradition, and German idealism in particular. </b></p>