Abstract

This newest volume in the always excellent “Universale Laterza” series of texts and studies in the history of philosophy is well worthy of its place. Antimo Negri has set out to survey the influence of Hegel in the philosophy of this century. He cleaves firmly to his assigned chronological limits; and he deals with the philosophical currents of Germany, Britain, France and Italy. Both the Hegelian and the anti-Hegelian tendencies of philosophy in North America are treated as tangential to the British tradition; and, Ortega y Gasset is given a place in the section on “German historicism.” Hegel’s influence in Scandinavia and the East is not discussed; but the range of Negri’s direct acquaintance with the philosophical literature of Western Europe is truly remarkable.