Hegel Society of America
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The Hegel Society of America, or HSA, was founded in 1968 at the Wofford Symposium in Spartanburg, South Carolina
, United States. Its mission is to promote the study of the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
.
These studies include Hegel's place in the history of philosophy, as well as the relationships of Hegel's writings to social, political, and cultural movements within the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The HSA claims that Hegel's philosophy remains relevant to contemporary issues and fields of knowledge.
HSA members meet every two years for three day seminars. These meetings feature a program on a theme selected by a democratic vote at the previous meeting, and the proceedings of every meeting since 1982 have been published.
HSA scholars cooperate with scholars from the following institutions:
The HSA never endorses or promotes any particular way of interpreting Hegel.
The HSA official journal, The Owl of Minerva
, is published twice yearly in Spring and Fall issues. Since 1969, the Owl has published approximately 1,000 articles, reviews, discussions, translations, and bibliographic information about current scholarship within Hegel studies.
All members of the Hegel Society of America receives a print subscription to the Owl, and print or electronic versions are distributed to more than 180 libraries worldwide. Memberships, and distribution of the journal in print and electronic formats, are managed by the Philosophy Documentation Center
.
Spartanburg, South Carolina
thgSpartanburg is the largest city in and the county seat of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States. It is the second-largest city of the three primary cities in the Upstate region of South Carolina, and is located northwest of Columbia, west of Charlotte, and about northeast of...
, United States. Its mission is to promote the study of the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.Hegel developed a comprehensive...
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These studies include Hegel's place in the history of philosophy, as well as the relationships of Hegel's writings to social, political, and cultural movements within the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The HSA claims that Hegel's philosophy remains relevant to contemporary issues and fields of knowledge.
HSA members meet every two years for three day seminars. These meetings feature a program on a theme selected by a democratic vote at the previous meeting, and the proceedings of every meeting since 1982 have been published.
HSA scholars cooperate with scholars from the following institutions:
- Hegel Society of Great BritainHegel Society of Great BritainThe Hegel Society of Great Britain is an English-speaking forum for scholars and students interested in the writings of the philosopher GWF Hegel . Such scholastic interest may extend to Hegel's predecessors, contemporaries, followers and critics.The Hegel Society of Great Britain was founded in...
- The Internationale Hegel-VereinigungThe Internationale Hegel-VereinigungThe Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung is a non-profit organization, founded in 1962. Its mission is to promote the study of G.W.F...
- The Internationale Hegel-GesellschaftThe Internationale Hegel-GesellschaftThe Internationale Hegelgesellschaft e.V. claims to be Germany's oldest surviving Hegel Society. It was founded 1953 in Nürnberg by Wilhelm Raimund Beyer .Mr...
- The Centre de recherche et de documentation sur Hegel
- The Hegel-ArchivHegel-ArchivThe Hegel Archives were founded in 1958 in North Rhine-Westphalia to encourage historical-critical efforts to study the collected works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel....
at Ruhr Universität, Bochum, Germany
The HSA never endorses or promotes any particular way of interpreting Hegel.
The HSA official journal, The Owl of Minerva
The Owl of Minerva
The Owl of Minerva is a peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on the work and legacy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Since 1969 the journal has published approximately 1,000 articles, reviews, discussions, and English translations of scholarly work on Hegel's thought. It is the official journal...
, is published twice yearly in Spring and Fall issues. Since 1969, the Owl has published approximately 1,000 articles, reviews, discussions, translations, and bibliographic information about current scholarship within Hegel studies.
All members of the Hegel Society of America receives a print subscription to the Owl, and print or electronic versions are distributed to more than 180 libraries worldwide. Memberships, and distribution of the journal in print and electronic formats, are managed by the Philosophy Documentation Center
Philosophy Documentation Center
The Philosophy Documentation Center is a non-profit publisher and resource center dedicated to providing affordable access to a wide range of materials in applied ethics, classics, philosophy, religious studies, and related disciplines...
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