Author: Smith, John H.
Title: The Spirit and Its Letter : Traces of Rhetoric in Hegel's Philosophy of Bildung
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1988). orig. cloth. 23x15cm, xii,283 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: On Prefacing: The Prediscourse (Vorrede) of the Phenomenology; Introduction: Representation, Rhetoric, Bildung: Hegel's Rhetorical Bildung in the Stuttgart Gymnasium Illustre; The Theological Manuscripts: Allegories & Hermeneutics of Bildung; The Dialectics of Kritik and the Bildung of Philosophy in the Jena Essays; The Representation of Bildung & the Bildung of Representation in the 'Phenomenology of Spirit': The Elocutio of the Spirit; Rhetorical Hermeneutics in the World of Bildung; Dialectic & Dialogue; Propedeutics of Philosophy: Hegel's Neohumanist Pedagogy in Nuremberg; Sophistry & the Prehistory of Philosphy;

Keywords: Philosophical Idealism, G.W.F. Hegel, Idealist Philosophy, Hegelian, Bildung, Pedagogy, Rhetoric, History,