The Owl of Minerva is a peer-reviewed

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 academic journal

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 focusing on the work and legacy 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...

. 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 of the Hegel Society of America

Hegel Society of America

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....

. Print and electronic distribution of the journal is managed by the Philosophy Documentation Center

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Notable contributors

• William Desmond
  William Desmond (philosopher)
  William Desmond is an Irish philosopher who has written on ontology, metaphysics, ethics, and religion. Former president of the Hegel Society of America and the Metaphysical Society of America. Desmond is now professor of philosophy at the Hoger Instituut Voor Wijsbegeerte , also known as the...
  
  
• Louis Dupre
  Louis Dupre
  Louis Dupre is a Catholic phenomenologist and religious philosopher. He was the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor in Yale University's religious studies department from 1973 to 1998, after which he became Professor Emeritus...
  
  
• Dieter Henrich
  Dieter Henrich
  Dieter Henrich is a German philosopher. A contemporary thinker in the tradition of German Idealism, Henrich is particularly known for the influence of Kant, Hegel and Fichte in his work.-Life:...
  
  
• T. M. Knox
  Malcolm Knox
  Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox FRSE was an Anglo-Scottish philosopher who served as Principal of St Andrews University from 1953-68 and Vice-president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1975-8.-Biography:...
  
  
• John Sallis
  John Sallis
  John Sallis is an American philosopher. Since 2005, he has been the Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He has previously taught at Pennsylvania State University , Vanderbilt University , Loyola University of Chicago , Duquesne University and the University of the South .He is the brother...
  
  
• Hans-Martin Sass
  Hans-Martin Sass
  Hans-Martin Sass , is a bioethicist.He is a Professor of Philosophy at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, and a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, Washington DC...