Article: Hegel: A Biography.(Review)

Hegel: A Biography, by Terry Pinkard; Cambridge University Press, 2000, $69.95.

BIOGRAPHY is no longer a service industry--according to Ray Monk, the widely applauded biographer of Wittgenstein. Not so long ago biographers were the caddies (A.D. Ho term) of the great writers and thinkers (when they were not their debunkers). But with Ellman's Joyce, Holroyd's Shaw and Ackroyd's T.S. Eliot among many others, biography has become a genre on its own. It is now "a celebration of human nature" (Richard Holmes) or the understanding of an interesting person (Monk). More like portraiture than criticism, it still adds little to our enjoyment of its subject's work, but it ...

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