Abstract

This volume provides a remarkable collection of materials that should prove useful to scholars with a variety of interests. The major item is the first translation into any language of Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs’ Religion in its Internal Relation to Systematic Knowledge. Though it can be claimed that Hinrichs is the first Hegelian and the founder of the Hegelian Right, this work would have fallen into even more total obscurity than it has had it not been accompanied by a Foreword from Hegel himself. Naturally the present volume includes that Foreword, both as the third translation of the text and as the first critical edition of the German text. Because both Hegel and Hinrichs level a critique of the theology of feeling published in the first edition of Schleiermacher’s Glaubenslehre and because the English translation is of the much revised second edition, the relevant sections of Schleiermacher’s first edition are included in translation.