Abstract

Professor Soll’s book is a short, introductory account of some of the central features of Hegel’s metaphysics. It is a welcome addition to literature on Hegel in English for two reasons. It helps to fill a gap that exists for students first coming to Hegel’s work between standard, full-length commentaries on Hegel’s thought and the capsule presentations of it found in histories of philosophy and the commentaries of philosophical anthologies and textbooks. The issues Soll discusses are presented in straight-forward, readable terms, a task which is never easy to accomplish when treating a major philosopher and one traditionally difficult for writers on Hegel.