Abstract

This is the second of Professor K-H Ilting’s six volumes on Hegel’s Philosophie des Rechts. His first volume was reviewed and his enterprise described in The Owl of Minerva, December 1973. When I was asked to review this second volume, I thought that a very short notice would suffice, because it was to contain the text of the Ph. d. R. and Hegel’s Randbemerkungen. I was entirely mistaken. This volume is a major contribution to Hegelian scholarship, and I must try to give some indication of why this is so.