Miller A.V. Hegel's 'Philosophy of Nature'

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. — 475 p. — ISBN: 0-19-927167-0. Foreword by J.N.FinlayPart two of the Encyclopaedia Of The Philosophical Sciences (1830) translated from Nicolin and Poggeler's Edition (1959) and from the Zusatze in Michelet's text (1847).The present translation of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature is part of an attempt to complete the translation of his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences of which two parts already exist in W. Wallace's translation of the Logic (with editorial Zusiitze) and of the Philosophy of Mind (without editorial Zusiitze), both published by the Clarendon Press. Though published towards the end of the last century, these translations have held their ground, and have a liveliness and a literary sparkle not found in other English versions, which atones for their occasional looseness and use of periphrasis, and which points to what can only be described as a spiritual identification with the genius of Hegel. The present translation is of the whole Philosophy of Nature, together with the editorial Zuslitz. It is hoped in an ensuing volume to present Wallace's translation of the numbered paragraphs of the Philosophy of Mind (or Philosophy of Spirit), the third part of the Encyclopaedia, together with the Zusiitze which, in the first collected editions, accompany only its first section. The Philosophy of Nature has been translated throughout by Mr. A. V. Miller, a dedicated Hegelian, though I have considered all his renderings and have given him what help I could with many difficult terms and passages. The translation of Zusiitze to the Philosophy of Mind (Spirit) will also be Mr. Miller's work. The translation has been made from Karl Ludwig Michelet's edition of the Naturphilosophie, published in 1847 in the Second Edition of Hegel's Collected Works, but Nicolin and Poggeler's 1959 edition of the Encyclopaedia (without Zwlitfle) has been consulted for the text of the numbered paragraphs. The translation of the Zusiitze raises many problems, fortunately not peculiar to the present translation.