The Hegel Dictionary

One of the difficulties raised by philosophy is that it often uses ordinary language in quite specific and even technical ways. So the study of every great philosopher will be enhanced by a dictionary devoted to his thought. If we add to this that Hegel is probably the most difficult to read of all philosophers, then that gives even greater value to a dictionary devoted to him. For what is the unschooled reader to make of terms like: absolute spirit, the doctrine of the concept, the concrete universal, the measureless, sublation?

The editor of this work freely admits that Hegel...