"...valuable insights into Hegel's unique critique of the confluence of religion, civil society, Western culture, and political association."

--Choice

Cambridge University Press Web Site, June, 2001

With a full chronology, general introduction, explanatory annotation, glossary and bibliography, this volume seeks to give students with no specialist knowledge access to both the practical and metaphysical aspects of Hegel's political thought. This collection gathers together for the first time in English translation Hegel's most important political writings, other than the Philosophy of Right, and provides insights into how Hegel's educational and religious views conflicted with the political values around which Prussian authorities organized their authoritarian regime.

Editors' note
Chronology of Hegel's life and career
Translator's preface

1. The magistrates should be elected by the people (1798)
2. The German constitution (1798�1802)
3. On the scientific ways of treating natural law, on its place in practical philosopy, and its relation to the positive sciences of right (1802�1803)
4. Inaugural address, delivered at the University of Berlin (22 October 1818)
5. Address on the tercentenary of the submission of the Augsburg Confession (25 June 1830)
6. Extracts from lectures on the philosophy of history (1827�1831)
7. The relationship of religion to the state (1831)
8. On the English Reform Bill (1831)

Editorial notes
Glossary
Abbreviations
Bibliography of works cited in this edition.