Freedom takes shape in a shared world.
Works, testimonies and further readings are distinguished. Dates refer to composition or first publication, as specified in each entry.
The catalogue covers the four main printed systematic books, major Jena essays, named early-manuscript and system-draft collections, political interventions, teaching materials, five major lecture corpora, reviews, correspondence and a named short-text dossier. Posthumous lecture books are editorial reconstructions, not uniformly authorized manuscripts. This is a broad work-level catalogue, not a complete item-level catalogue of the Gesammelte Werke: minor reviews, every lecture transcript, archival record and manuscript fragment require critical-edition records. Letter and fragment inventories explicitly state the exact verified edition coverage and any gaps.
Explore letters and fragmentsConsciousness tests its claims to know, moving from immediate certainty through recognition, social life, religion and absolute knowing. Each position encounters difficulties generated by its own standards rather than simply being refuted from outside.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)The doctrines of Being, Essence and Concept examine the basic determinations through which anything becomes intelligible. Hegel attempts to let categories develop from their own limits rather than accepting a ready-made inventory of fixed forms.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)A compact teaching outline presents Logic, Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of Spirit as connected parts of a system. Numbered paragraphs compress arguments that Hegel expanded orally, making the work a map whose routes still require reconstruction.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Hegel traces freedom through property and contract, moral intention, family, civil society and the state. Freedom becomes actual through practices and institutions that recognize persons while addressing the conflicts generated by modern economic and social differentiation.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Hegel’s first major publication compares two post-Kantian projects and asks why a culture needs philosophy. He defends speculative unity against forms of reflection that fix oppositions between subject and object without understanding their relation.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Hegel examines Kant, Jacobi and Fichte as versions of reflective philosophy that place ultimate reality beyond knowledge. He argues that this restriction leaves reason dependent on an inaccessible absolute and preserves the oppositions philosophy should comprehend.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)The essay criticizes empirical and formal approaches to natural law, asking how ethical institutions can be understood as an organized whole. It contrasts abstract individual starting points with a historically embodied account of communal life.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)This named essay dossier contains On the Essence of Philosophical Criticism, The Relation of Skepticism to Philosophy, and How Ordinary Common Sense Takes Philosophy. Hegel examines how a philosophical claim can be judged without treating unexamined common opinion as its final court.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)The posthumous collection includes Folk Religion and Christianity, The Life of Jesus, The Positivity of the Christian Religion, The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate, and the 1800 System Fragment. Their changing accounts of religion investigate freedom, law, love and historical community.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)This unpublished Jena manuscript organizes needs, labour, exchange, family and political life into a speculative account of ethical unity. Its dense terminology records an experimental stage rather than the finished architecture of the Philosophy of Right.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)The three editorially established draft groups contain the 1803/04 Philosophy of Nature and Spirit, the 1804/05 Logic, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Nature, and the 1805/06 Philosophy of Nature and Spirit. They show a system repeatedly reorganized in manuscript.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Hegel’s Latin habilitation dissertation challenges aspects of mathematical physics and asks how planetary motion should be understood philosophically. Its treatment of numerical planetary spacing later became a notorious example in disputes about speculative natural science.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)This unfinished political manuscript examines the fragmented Holy Roman Empire and asks whether a political body still functions as a state. Hegel distinguishes private privileges from the common capacity to act, defend territory and sustain public authority.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Hegel evaluates the dispute between the king’s proposed constitution and the estates defending established rights. The essay asks whether an inherited liberty still serves public freedom when social and political circumstances have substantially changed.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Hegel’s final major political article examines British electoral reform, inherited privileges and the mismatch between representation and social change. It questions whether reforming the franchise can resolve deeper institutional conflicts without provoking a destructive break.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Teaching materials from Hegel’s Nuremberg school years introduce logic, duties, consciousness and philosophical system to pupils. Their practical educational purpose reveals how he adapted difficult concepts to sequential instruction and institutional responsibilities.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)The lectures interpret world history through changing forms of consciousness of freedom. Peoples, institutions, religion and major political actors enter an account in which conflict and unintended consequences transform the conditions of collective life.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Hegel investigates art as a sensuous presentation of spiritual meaning, comparing symbolic, classical and romantic forms and the individual arts. Architecture, sculpture, painting, music and poetry express different relations between material embodiment and human self-understanding.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)The courses investigate religion’s concept, particular historical religions and Christianity as the consummate religion in Hegel’s account. Religious representation is connected with philosophical thinking, but the relation between their forms remains contested.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Hegel reads past philosophies as intelligible responses whose achievements and limits contribute to the development of thought. The history of philosophy becomes philosophical argument rather than a catalogue of unrelated opinions or a list of refuted mistakes.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)The lecture manuscript reconsiders what a proof of God would mean after Kant’s critique. Hegel treats the movement from finite existence toward the absolute as a problem about thought’s own activity rather than a merely external inference to another object.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)This editorial dossier groups the major reviews of Jacobi, Solger, Hamann and Göschel, together with the two reviews engaging Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Bhagavad-Gita studies and writings associated with the Berlin Yearbooks for Scientific Criticism.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Letters connect Hegel’s philosophical work with friendship, employment, family, publishing and political events. Exchanges with Schelling, Hölderlin, Niethammer and others show practical dependencies and changing relationships that a sequence of major books can easily conceal.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)This supplementary dossier identifies Who Thinks Abstractly?, the poem Eleusis, early diary materials, school and university addresses, the translation and notes on Cart’s confidential letters, and the fragment conventionally called The Oldest System Programme of German Idealism.
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