The Absolute Boot, or, The Journeyman Cobbler Steeped in Hegel's Philosophy: A Comic Drama in Two Acts - Softcover

Lindner, Friedrich Ludwig

9781933237138: The Absolute Boot, or, The Journeyman Cobbler Steeped in Hegel's Philosophy: A Comic Drama in Two Acts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933237139 ISBN 13: 9781933237138

Publisher: Gegensatz Pr, 2008

In 1844 a German journalist named Friedrich Ludwig Lindner wrote a satirical two-act play about Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit called The Absolute Boot, or, The Journeyman Cobbler Steeped in Hegel’s Philosophy. This play has been translated into English by Lawrence S.Stepelevich, prominent Hegel scholar and former editor of The Owl of Minerva.It was performed to much acclaim at the Trent University meeting of the Hegel Society of America.Stepelevich’s translation of The Absolute Boot contains parallel German and English texts of the play, as well as Stepelevich’s introduction to the history of the play and its times.

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