{"product_id":"9780801474507","title":"Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The organization of the text is first class, the reading of Hegel's texts sensitive and perspicacious, and the writing poised, even elegant. This would be a fine book for a scholar at any stage of his or her career. For a first book it is absolutely exceptional.\"\u003c\/b\u003e?\u003ci\u003eOwl of Minerva\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermetic tradition, a body of thought with roots in Greco-Roman Egypt. Magee traces the influence on Hegel of such Hermetic thinkers as Baader, Böhme, Bruno, and Paracelsus, and fascination with occult and paranormal phenomena.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHegel and the Hermetic Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e covers Hegel's philosophical corpus and shows that his engagement with Hermeticism lasted throughout his career and intensified during his final years in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eViewing Hegel as a Hermetic thinker has implications for a more complete understanding of the modern philosophical tradition, and German idealism in particular. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glenn Alexander Magee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Philosophy","offer_id":54379239964896,"sku":null,"price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4def2595-715b-419c-ac7d-f8d3c38d7c8b.jpg?v=1787498375","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9780801474507","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}