Hegel's Career and Politics

This meticulously researched book focuses on the crucial relationship between Hegel's career and politics. It situates this relationship within the broader political and historical context of his time. More specifically, it explores Hegel's unlikely rise to academic prominence. Contrary to the contemporary "consensus view," Tabak documents conclusively that Hegel was a servile apologist for the repressive Prussian state, and that this was the main reason why he became the most famous philosopher in Germany.