"This is a most excellent book. Lauer's translation of the Introduction to Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy 'Authority and Freedom, and a fragment, is competent and readable. aside from the service of translating the Introduction to one of Hegel's most popular and careful lecture courses Hegel gave the course may with growing success and continual attention to refurbishment also provides a precise and firm commentary on the importanc text and its intellectual tools." The Moderu t

"Fr. Lauer has placed students of Hegel in his debt for making u able in English the most authoritative version of Hegel's Introduction to his Lectures on the History of Philosophy. The translation is a model of its kind... Fr. Lauer's learning and tact have enabled him to pre serve the deceptively simple, smooth surface of Hegel's original while remaining faithful to its subtlety. The introductory essay in which Fr. Lauer surveys what he calls 'Hegel's Idea of Philosophy' is thorough and fair. It deserves a place in the short list of reliable summaries of Hegel's teaching." International Philosophical Quarterly

"In his illuminating essays, 'The Hegelian System' and 'The Text of Hegel's Introduction, Lauer has given us much more, in both scope and substance, than the usual translator's effort to acquaint the reader with the main text that is to come. In fact the reader is apt to feel that Hegel's Introduction to the History of Philosophy is itself an introduc tion to Lauer's essays for, whereas Hegel's discussion is confined to the concept of philosophy and what it means for philosophy to have a his tory, Lauer aims at elucidating ideas central to Hegel's entire system." Thought

"For Hegel, to do the history of philosophy was to do philosophy, and the Introduction to the History of Philosophy is, as Fr. Lauer says, probably the best available introduction to Hegel's philosophy itself. This new translation made from notes taken in Hegel's lectures of 1825-6 is therefore welcome, especially in view of the fairly compre hensive introduction which Lauer provides."