Klaus Vieweg is Professor of Classical German Philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena and one of the world's leading Hegel experts. Vieweg has authored or edited over two dozen books, with translations appearing in Italian, Spanish, Chinese and English, among other languages.
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Introduction
To Philosophize Is to Think Freely, to Learn to Live Freely
1. The Beloved Hometown: Growing Up in Stuttgart, 1770-1788
2. A Student at the Protestant Seminary:Tübingen, 1788-1793
3. A Private Tutor of a Patrician Family: Switzerland, 1793-1796
4. From a Mosaic of Fragments to the Cornerstone of a System: Frankfurt, 1797-1800
5. The Birth of Absolute Idealism: Jena 1801-1807
6. The Political Journalist: Bamberg, 1807-1808
7. The First Humanistic Gymnasium and the Science of Logic: Nuremberg, 1808-1816
8. The Owl of Minerva on the Neckar: Heidelberg, 1816-1818
9. The "Great Center": Becoming World-Famous in Berlin, 1818-1831 Obituaries
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index of Names
"Originally published in German in 2019 under the title Hegel: der Philosoph der Freiheit."