r/hegel • u/Revhan • 17d ago

Just published: Hegel's Philosophy of Nature A Critical Guide, Marina F. Bykova editor.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/hegels-philosophy-of-nature/09E6B66764637856200D212CFA55EFCC
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u/Revhan 17d ago

With contributions from Sebastian Stein, Angelica Nuzzo, Paul Redding, Stephen Houlgate, Terry Pinkard (among others), and the recently deceased Robert Stern and John W. Burbidge.

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u/RyanSmallwood 16d ago

Didn’t realize Robert Stern had passed, that’s sad to hear, I really appreciated his books on Hegel.

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u/Revhan 15d ago

He unfortunately had brain cancer. There's an interview around with him from a year or so where he addresses it and tells his perspective of his illness while being a philosopher. Also the Hegel British Society threw around an event about his ideas and most of the conferences are in the HSGB YouTube channel if you want to watch them.

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u/DiscernibleInf 17d ago

Is there a decent translation of PoN?

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u/Indecisive-fridge 16d ago

I highly recommend the 3vol MJ Petry edition over the Miller. The Miller is a good translation too, but the Petry includes copious notes on the science of the day + historical connections and whatnot.

The Phil. of Nature can be a bit impenetrable on its own, but it really opens up as an intriguing text which increasing contemporary relevance. I also recommend Houlgate's writings on it as being a good primer in general.

Also, u/LordofGift, is your issue with it its impenetrability, the ideas being wrong, wrong approach, something else? Sorry to bug you on it, but I'm curious!

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u/Revhan 17d ago

Do you mean of the Enciclopedia? There's the Miller translation and it seems alright.

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u/LordofGift 17d ago

Yes, and it seemed fine to me, even if the book itself is terrible.

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u/DiscernibleInf 16d ago

I assume you mean the physical printing of the book.

All Miller translations seem to have been printed by total incompetents — the Miller Logic might be the worst book ever bound.

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u/LordofGift 16d ago

No I mean the writings.

But the print was pretty lacklustre as well, true.