Hegel’s Development: Towards the Sunlight, 1770-1801

and

Hegel’s Development: Night Thoughts (Jena 1801-1806)

by H. S. Harris (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1972, 1983) is a fine study of Hegel’s early years. The influential work by George Lukacs,

The Young Hegel,

is available in an English translation by R. Livingstone (Merlin Press, London, 1975).

Tom Rockmore puts Hegel’s theory of knowledge into its historical context in

Before and After Hegel: A Historical Introduction to Hegel’s Thought (University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1993). Older, but still useful works are: Edward Caird,

Hegel (Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1901); Benedetto Croce,

What is Living and What is Dead in the

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