Hegel and the Spirit: Philosophy as Pneumatology

by Alan M. Olson

Book Overview

Hegel and the Spirit explores the meaning of Hegel's grand philosophical category, the category of Geist, by way of what Alan Olson terms a pneumatological thesis. Hegel's philosophy of spirit, according to Olson, is a speculative pneumatology that completes what Adolf von Harnack once called the "orphan doctrine" in Christian theology--the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Olson argues that Hegel's development of philosophy as pneumatology originates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691146691
• ISBN13: 9780691146690
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"