Hegel on Ethics and Politics

Extract

Hegel on Ethics and Politics, Robert B. Pippin and Otfried Höffe, eds., translated by Nicholas Walker; The German Philosophical Tradition Series; Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 358

In a better world, all books involving Kant or Hegel might come with a reverse price tag. Instead of making prospective readers pay for the privilege, they would encourage and reward the gruelling labour facing those who would brave the convoluted prose, the merciless grind of thousand-word paragraphs lecturing in German no matter the language in which they appear to be written. In our own world, of course, such learned works tend to be especially expensive, a whopping hundred dollars in this case.