Son of Spirit

by David Farrell Krell

Book Overview

Son of Spirit is the story of a natural child of philosophy--the story of one of philosophy's bastards. Hegel's first son, Louis, known to posterity as Ludwig Fischer, was an illegitimate child born to Hegel's landlady in 1807. At the time, Hegel was completing his first major philosophical work, The Phenomenology of Spirit. In that work, the philosopher spoke out in the name of spirit and reason; in his life, he worried about the unreasonable accident...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791432211
• ISBN13: 9780791432211
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.