Goethe, Kant, and Hegel

Taylor & Francis

Goethe, Kant, and HegelDiscovering the Mind\nAuthor(s): Walter Kaufmann\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138524477, 978-1138524477\nSynopsis\nThis immensely readable and absorbing book - the first of a three-volume series on understanding the human mind - concentrates on three major figures who have changed our image of human beings. Kaufmann drastically revises traditional conceptions of Goethe, Kant, and Hegel, showing how their ideas about the mind were shaped by their own distinctive mentalities.\n\nKaufmann's version of psychohistory stays clear of gossip and is carefully documented. He offers us a radically new understanding of two centuries of intellectual history, but his primary focus is on self-knowledge. He is in a unique position to perform this task by virtue of being, according to Stephen Spender, \""the best translator of Faust\""; and in Sidney Hook's view, \""unquestionably the most interesting and .