Works from Hegel and 19h century Hegelians available as e-Texts (PDF, HTML) Online
Collections of Hegel texts - online
- Hegel’s original works - all original works from Hegel published at Hegel’s lifetime as well as the famous first collection of Hegel’s Works, published by his friends (“Freunde des Verewigten”), in PDF form (all in German). The most complete collection of original Hegel works in German available online. Searched for, found and collected by Hegel.net, scanned by Google Books.
- The Hegel by Hypertext project from Andy Blunden at marxists.org has one of the biggest collection of Hegel texts in HTML form online. They also have most famous Marxist comments on Hegel’s works online, too.
- Hegel at archive.org - more than 6000 documents for only reading and download
- Project Gutenberg (German), have the Phenomenology and Hegel’s Logic in German in HTML pieces suitable for reading it online.
- socialsciences.mcmaster.ca hosts some Hegel related PDFs as well. Beside Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Right’ and ‘Philosophy of History’, you will also find books from the British Hegel reception around 1900, including Baille, MacTaggart, Hibben and Cunningham. The site also presents many other books useful for the study of the history of political economy.
Works of Hegel himself - online
in German
- ‘Phänomenologie des Geistes’ (HTML, Project Gutenberg)
- Science of Logic, in the 1841 “Freundesausgabe” edition, in German at Project Gutenberg:
- Vol. 1 (Objective Logic), including a foreword of Henning of 1841
- Vol. 2 (Subjective Logic or Concept)
- The ‘Enzyklopaedia’ of 1830 (needs Javascript for navigation)
in English translation
Phenomenology
- Marxists Internet Archive: Hegel’s ‘’Phenomenology of Mind’
- ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’. translated by Terry Pinkard (2012): https://libcom.org/files/Georg%20Wilhelm%20Friedrich%20Hegel%20-%20The%20Phenomenology%20of%20Spirit%20(Terry%20Pinkard%20Translation).pdf
- ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’. Bilingual, with Dictionary
Logic (short and long versions)
- excerpts of The ‘Encyclopedia Logic’ , sometimes called ‘Short Logic’. (translated by Harris, HTML, ‘Hegel by Hypertext’)
- excerpts of The ‘Science Logic’ (sometimes called ‘Large Logic’), HTML, Hegel by Hypertext
- ‘Philosophy of Right’ , Translated by S.W. Dyde, full text, PDF (some 800 KB!)
Lectures
- ‘Lectures on the Philosophy of History’ , Translated by J. Sibree,, full text, PDF (some 1.7 MB!)
- selections from Hegel’s Lectures about ‘Aesthetics’, (English trans. from ‘Hegel-by-Hypertext’ in HTML). This eText contains at most about 5% of Hegel’s three volumes on this subject.
- Foreword to Hegel’s Lectures about ‘Philosophy of Religion’, (translated by the Rev. E B Speirs and J Burdon Sanderson, in Three Volumes, Routledge & Kegan Paul; first published 1895, ‘Hegel-by-Hypertext’ in HTML).
German Journals from Hegel and the Hegel school in 19th’ Century Germany
(in German. Scanned by Google Books as PDF, searched, found and collected by Hegel.net)
- Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Kritik - The famous Journal, edited by Gans, in which Hegel and many of his pupils and friends published. Degenerated under massive pressure from the censor in the early 1840s, after Gans died and the new King issued an aggressive anti Hegelian Policy.
- Hallische Jahrbücher - Famous left Hegelian Philosophical Journal from Echtermeyer and Ruge, published outside the direct reach of the Prussian censorship. Became the leading Hegelian Journal after the censorship of the JWK. Moved and renamed since July 1st 1841 as ‘Deutsche Jahrbücher’ and still forced to shut down end of January 1843. Reappeared once as ‘Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher’.
- Der Gedanke - Philosophical Journal of Michelet and Cieszkowski and their Philosophical Society. An unsuccessful attempt to create a Hegelian revival in 1860’s Berlin
Bibliographies
- Philosophical Bibliography [2019] by Ken Kubota on Hegel, Marx, Dialectics and Critical Theory, with a special focus on Hegel’s Logic, ISBN 978-3-943334-19-7, http://doi.org/10.4444/100.110 Direct link to online PDF (2019) (Please note that this a large file, ca. 40 MB.)
- Hegel Bibliography by Andrew Chitty, University of Sussex, England.
- Hegel works in German at the Meiner Verlag, Hamburg. While the Hegel edition most widely used in Germany is the one from Suhrkamp (stw 601-621), the edition at the Meiner Verlag, based on the work of the Hegel Archiv Bochum, is the best philological edition of Hegel’s works in German.
German Work of famous German 19th century Left, Center and Right Hegelians
(in German. Scanned by Google Books as PDF, searched, found and collected by Hegel.net)
- Bruno Bauer
- Cieszkowski
- Daub
- Erdmann - special recommendation from hegel.net editor
- Feuerbach
- Fischer
- Frantz
- Gabler
- Gans - special recommendation from hegel.net editor
- Goeschel
- Henning
- Hinrichs
- Hotho
- Kapp
- Lassalle
- Marheinecke
- Michelet - special recommendation from hegel.net editor
- Rosenkranz - special recommendation from hegel.net editor
- Ruge
- Schaller
- Stirner
- Thaulow
- Vischer
- Zeller
See also:
- Links - to other Hegel related Web sites
- List of German Editions of Hegel’s works
- CD ROMs with Hegel texts
- Posters showing Hegel’s system