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BOOK REVIEWS 307 followed him, to sit in again, in x818/19, on the same course, making additions to his earlier notes. The Ilting edition gives the transcript of Wannenmann's notes as supplemented, and then adds the version of the Berlin course as taken down by Homeyer. The Felix Meiner volume has the same transcript, differently edited, but without Homeyer, and Henrich gives us an edition of a set of notes, made by an unknown student at Berlin in the following year, which has recently been discovered in the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana. This transcript is especially interesting and important, because Hegel must have been engaged at the time in preparing the manuscript of the Grundlinien, which, though he finished it in 182o, was not published until 1821, largely due to his concern about the censorship imposed after the Carlsbad Decrees. This transcript, therefore, contains what Hegel said more freely in the lecture room, and serves as a means of interpreting what he was concurrently writing in the intended handbook. Ilting and Henrich provide admirable explanatory notes, in Ilting's case almost amounting to a full scale commentary. Their detective work in determining what in the text is due to the student, what to the hired transcriber, and what to the actual author, is astonishingly skillful. Each of them explains at length how he has gone about this detective work, in a manner both intriguing and learned. Their editorial practice is, on the whole, superior to that of the editors of the first volume, which is, nevertheless , beautifully produced, very easily readable and usefully annotated. Ilting's commentary is notable for his learning in Jurisprudence and the clarification of Hegel's more obscure references to Roman Law, Henrich's for his philosophical insights. What is especially important for the student of the Rechtsphilosophie now is to make detailed comparison of these texts with the others so far available and with the Grundlinien itself. This is facilitated by Ilting, who gives the correlations progressively in the margin. The Becker (et al.) edition does the same for Wannenmann and Homeyer in a table in the appendix. It is hardly the function of a review such as this, and in any case it is scarcely feasible, to comment on Hegel's moral and political philosophy as such. Suffice it to say that these three volumes are a magnificent addition to the sources of study, providing new evidence for interpretation and throwing new light on the development of Hegel's thought. And the way in which all three of them have been set out and produced merits nothing but praise. ERROL E. HARRIS Northwestern University Stephen Bungay. Beauty and Truth: A Study of Hegel's Aesthetics. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp. xi + 235. $24.95 cloth. Very few full length studies of Hegel's aesthetics have appeared in English in the last hundred years, indeed since Hegel's death. Jack Kaminsky's study, Hegel on the Arts, appeared in 1969, a study which tried to "salvage" Hegel's views on the particular 308 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 25:2 APRIL 1987 arts from what seemed to be the wreckage of the metaphysical system. We have to go back to J. S. Kedney in 1885 for a previous full length work on Hegel's aesthetics, and this book is little more than a dull paraphrase of some Hegelian themes. Given this dearth, the appearance of Stephen Bungay's book is welcome. It is additionally welcome because Bungay tries to do justice to both the systematic side of Hegel's aesthetics, as well as the important details of his treatment of the individual arts. Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics is a work of great expanse of detail and intensive concentration on art's essential forms, a work very difficult to encompass in a single volume of commentary. Bungay's book will serve not only as a very helpful introduction to Hegel's aesthetics, it will also alert the reader to the continuing relevance of some central Hegelian themes to contemporary aesthetic culture. Bungay is particularly good in treating that much discussed theme...

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