Modern Freedom

''0 ~{oc; ~paxuc;, ~ O£ ''t£XVll ~a1(pft (Hippokrates) That life is short needs no proof when we are engaged in ambitious projects. When I began this book, almost forty years ago, I did not forsee that its completion would take such a long time, although I was well aware that some of Hegel''s texts stubbornly resist a thorough deciphering of their meaning and argumenta­ tion. Having written a diss...