Author

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel(1770–1831)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1844–1845). One work is named, most often in New-York Daily Tribune, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Books · Essays
Documented
1844–1845
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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“Tis pity, indeed, that in the age of Hegel a young man should thus throw away in so absurd a manner, life and its glorious chances, through the attempt to become self-conscious.”
The French in Algiers . . . · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York2records
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Hegel in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1844—

New-York Daily Tribune

“Brown's Novels” · 1846
mentioned
“Born Hegelians, without the pretensions of science, they sought God in their own consciousness, and found him.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p84

Inferred The reference most likely alludes to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, his most well-known work.

1845—

The French in Algiers . . .

“The French in Algiers . . .”
mentioned
“Tis pity, indeed, that in the age of Hegel a young man should thus throw away in so absurd a manner, life and its glorious chances, through the attempt to become self-conscious.”

Fuller, Margaret. "The French in Algiers . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 22 May 1845. · 22 May 1845