The Philosophy of History

The Philosophy of HistoryHegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the "philosophy of history" a novel concept in the early nineteenth century. With this work, he created the history of philosophy as a scientific study. He reveals philosophical theory as neither an accident nor an artificial construct, but as an exemplar of its age, fashioned by its antecedents and contemporary circumstances, and serving as a model for the future. The author

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The music is reproduced directly from the exemplary Universal-Edition set edited by Heinrich Schenker

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An epic tale of heroism and treachery

Blackwood's ability to create an atmosphere of unrelieved horror and sustain it to the end of the story is almost unsurpassed

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Gustave Dore's magnificent engravings for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are among the later works of the great French illustrator

Larger-than-life figures populate these stories — Isis and Osiris

What is the relationship of the individual to the state

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bringing the power of poetry and song to the symphonic fabric: Beethoven's dramatic choral setting of Schiller's Ode and die Freude — his "Ode to Joy