Die Hegel-Studien wurden 1961 in Verbindung mit der Hegel-Kommission der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft begründet und entstanden im engen Zusammenhang mit der Arbeit an der historisch-kritischen Gesamtausgabe Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gesammelte Werke. Seit 1999 erscheinen die Hegel-Studien als Jahrbuch im Felix Meiner Verlag und werden durch die Reihe der »Beihefte« ergänzt. Schwerpunkt von Band 57: Law and Violence in Hegel, hg. von Christoph Menke und Benno Zabel mit Beiträgen von Jean-François Kervégan, Ana María Miranda Mora und Christian Schmidt Außerdem im Band: Abhandlungen von Thomas Kelkel und Achim Wamßler; Texte und Dokumente mit einem Beitrag über die Hegel-Nachschriften von F. W. Carové von Klaus Vieweg, Christian Illies, Francesca Iannelli und Marko J. Fuchs; Buchkritik: Untersuchungen zur klassischen deutschen Philosophie | Editionen | Literatur zu Hegel | Neuerscheinungen zu einzelnen Autoren der klassischen deutschen Philosophie; Bibliographie: Literatur zur Hegel-Forschung

The papers published here were given at the second biennial conference of the Hegel Society of America, held at the University of Notre Dame, November 9-11, 1972. They appear in an order which reflects roughly two headings: (1) Hegel's conception of the history of philosophy in general, and (2) his relation to individual thinkers both before and after him. Given the importance of the history of philosophy for Hegel, and the far-reaching impact of his thought upon subsequent philosophy, it becomes immediately apparent that we have here only a beginning. At the conference, cries went up "Why not Hegel and Aristotle, Aquinas, HusserI and Hart mann?" Indeed, why not? The answer, of course, might be given by Hegel himself : if we wish to accomplish anything, we have to limit ourselves. We trust that future conferences and scholarship will bring to light these relationships and the many more which testify to Hegel's profound presence in the mainstream of past and present thought. It is furthermore no accident that the renaissance of Hegelian studies has brought with it a rebirth of the history of philosophy as something relevant to our own problems. For Hegel, the object of philosophy is alone the truth, the history of philosophy is philosophy itself, and this truth which it gives us cannot be what has passed away.

Filling an important gap in post-Kantian philosophy, Hegel's Theory of Imagination focuses on the role of the imagination, and resolves the question of its apparent absence in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Jennifer Ann Bates discusses Hegel's theory of the imagination through the early and late Philosophy of Spirit lectures, and reveals that a dialectic between the two sides of the imagination (the "night" of inwardizing consciousness and the "light" of externalizing material) is essential to thought and community. The complexity and depth of Hegel's insights make this book essential reading for anyone seriously interested in understanding how central the imagination is to our every thought.

Focusing on the Science of Logic , this wide-ranging and innovative reading exposes the force as well as the limit of Hegel's philosophy. Drawing on Hegel's early account of tragic conflicts, De Boer brings into play a form of negativity that challenges the optimism inherent in modernity and Hegelian dialectics alike.