Robert R. Williams is Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is Past President of the Hegel Society of America (1998-2000). His publications include Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God: Studies in Hegel and Nietzsche (Oxford University Press, 2012), Recognition: Fichte and Hegel on the Other (State University of New York Press, 1992), and Hegel's Ethics of Recognition (University of California Press, 1998).

• PART I: HEGEL ON THE PROOFS OF GOD; PART II: HEGEL ON THE PERSONHOOD OF GOD

The book is diligently researched, and marshals an impressive amount of textual evidence concerning Hegel's view of the [ontological] proofs, his theory of personhood, and his views on religious community... Readers of Hegel who wish to understand more about his late lectures on philosophical theology will find an adequate guide.

Robert R. Williams is Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is Past President of the Hegel Society of America (1998-2000). His publications include Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God: Studies in Hegel and Nietzsche (Oxford University Press, 2012), Recognition: Fichte and Hegel on the Other (State University of New York Press, 1992), and Hegel's Ethics of Recognition (University of California Press, 1998).

• PART I: HEGEL ON THE PROOFS OF GOD; PART II: HEGEL ON THE PERSONHOOD OF GOD

The book is diligently researched, and marshals an impressive amount of textual evidence concerning Hegel's view of the [ontological] proofs, his theory of personhood, and his views on religious community... Readers of Hegel who wish to understand more about his late lectures on philosophical theology will find an adequate guide.

Robert R. Williams is Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is Past President of the Hegel Society of America (1998-2000). His publications include Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God: Studies in Hegel and Nietzsche (Oxford University Press, 2012), Recognition: Fichte and Hegel on the Other (State University of New York Press, 1992), and Hegel's Ethics of Recognition (University of California Press, 1998).

• PART I: HEGEL ON THE PROOFS OF GOD; PART II: HEGEL ON THE PERSONHOOD OF GOD

The book is diligently researched, and marshals an impressive amount of textual evidence concerning Hegel's view of the [ontological] proofs, his theory of personhood, and his views on religious community... Readers of Hegel who wish to understand more about his late lectures on philosophical theology will find an adequate guide.