Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Gesammelte Werke. Vol. VII. Jenaer Systementwürfe II (review)

BOOK REVIEWS 417 valid argument in Kant's work" (p. 192). Again: "'My own belief is that Hegel's polemical undertaking foundered upon this difficulty" (p. 228). Or: "Thus far my hypothesis is, I think, directly supported by the evidence.... I shall now offer some further surmises... " (p. 381). The sources upon which Professor Harris depends are primarily the earliest Hegel manuscripts, Hegel's diary and letters, notably the exchange of letters between Hegel and Schelling. But secondary sources and various works about Hegel and his friends have also been consulted. In other words, Harris has left no stone unturned (as it were) to present as complete and authentic a picture of the most formative years in Hegel's philosophical development. The evidence he produces quite clearly supports the contention that "one of the most remarkable things about the development of Hegel's philosophy is that ideas mature in a sort of steady succession and, once matured, remain fairly stable even while other ideas are developing around and above them" (p. 390). In a brief review it is impossible to present an adequate view of Hegel's development. But so detailed and farreaching is Harris' sustained argument in support of the conclusion that, unless new evidence is uncovered (.which is unlikely), his work must be regarded as definitive for the period it covers: 1770-1801. In an Appendix, Harris presents five of the early "fragments" in his own translation. In this form the "fragments" are not otherwise available. This Appendix is followed by "A Chronological Index to Hegel's Early Writings" (517-527) and a "Bibliographical Index" (529-534) of books and articles dealing with the formative period of Hegel's life. An extensive "Analytical Index" (535-574) completes the work. From here on out, Hegel scholars will always be indebted to Professor Harris and his meticulous scholarship. W. H. WEggMEISTER Florida State University Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Gesammelte Werke. Vol. VII. Jenaer Systementwiirfe H. Edited by Rolf-Peter Horstmann and Johann Heinrich Trede. (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1971. Pp. 376. DM 74) This is volume seven of the historic-critical edition of Hegel's collected works, whose volume four we have reviewed in the October, 1970 issue of the Journal o/ the History of Philosophy, VIII: 4. Up to the present time, only these two volumes have been published; the first one was released in 1968. (That vast enterprise in which numerous Hegel scholars are cooperating is sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in Bonn-Bad Godesberg.) This present volume contains an early outline of Hegel's philosophical system, called "fragment of a fair copy," from 1804 to 1805. Its title is: Logik, Metaphysik, Naturphilosophie . According to the editors, the work was originally planned as a printed introduction to a publication of Hegel's Jena system, but the young philosopher later renounced this plan. He had written on September 29, 1804, to Goethe: "The aim of a work which I hope to finish this winter for my lectures, a purely scientific treatment of philosophy, will give me the chance to submit it to Your Excellency, if you'll graciously allow it." Hegel announced as early as the first semester of his teaching schedule (winter semester, 1801-1802), a lecture on logic and metaphysics, and just this subject remains 418 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY in all his announcements, except that for the winter semester 1805-1806. From these announcements it clearly appears that he has planned the publication of a textbook serving as a guide to his lectures on the aforementioned topics. Thus he announces as early as for the summer of 1802 a lecture on logic and metaphysics which he would deliver secundum librum sub eodem titulo proditurum. He has, even at that early period, discussed this plan with a publisher; for the Cotta publishing house, in a circular of June 1802, gives notice of a book to be released soon: Logic and Metaphysics by Hegel. Also, for his lecture on the same topics to be given during the winter semester 1802-1803, Hegel refers to a book that was supposed to appear nundinis instantibus, and in Cotta's order book the original term of release for that work, namely the fall...