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"""Few, if any, have got the gist of the Geist. Until now, that is. In Hegel’s World Revolutions, Richard Bourke offers a major re-evaluation of not only Hegel’s philosophy of history but also the history of his philosophy. . . .To understand Hegel, you must read Bourke.""---Daniel Johnson, The Critic ""Richard Bourke is a formidably talented political historian. . . . Hegel’s World Revolutions displays a knowledge of its protagonist’s thought which may well be unequalled in Britain. Its mountain of secondary sources is just as impressive.""---Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books ""What has enduring influence is Hegel’s historical analysis, and Mr. Bourke provides a learned case for its brilliance and relevance. . . . Mr. Bourke in particular has effectively rebuked the overheated anathemas of Hegel produced by Berlin and Popper . . . [and] their authoritarian Hegel must now confront Mr. Bourke’s cosmopolitan, pluralistic and liberal version.""---Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal ""[A] breathtaking intellectual tour de force. . . .A book of such unrelenting intellectual calibre and breadth.""---Jeremy Jennings, Engelsberg Ideas ""A masterclass in scholarship.""---Max Skjönsberg, Law & Liberty ""Hegel’s World Revolutions represents arguably the most original contribution to Hegel scholarship in some time. . . .A comprehensive yet succinct and elegant exposition of Hegel’s thought that attests to his great importance as a leading philosopher of modernity.""---Adam Coleman, Oxford Political Review ​​​​​​​ ""Bourke’s defence of the German philosopher against a motley crew of post-war cynics and political idealists is historically thorough and philosophically compelling, every sentence of it delivered with a clarity that will make the layman rejoice and the specialist grunt with envy""---Harrison Pitt, The European Conservative ""This study helps readers to appreciate the diagnostic function of the history of political thought and to consider its implications for our own time."" * Paradigm Explorer * ""[The book] serves as boundless food for thought. . . .The sort of political philosophy that one has come to naturally align with such a brilliant mind as the man himself."" * David Marx Book Reviews * ""[Hegel’s World Revolutions] is decorously scholarly: exhaustively researched, laden with footnotes, its argument infused with nuance throughout.""---Seamus Flaherty, Merion West ""[Bourke’s] project is immense in terms of its scope. It is hard not to be impressed by the breadth of his study as he meticulously discusses the fate of Hegelian philosophy in both the continental and the Anglo-Saxon traditions.""---Umur Başdaş, Contemporary Political Theory"

"""[A] breathtaking intellectual tour de force. . . .A book of such unrelenting intellectual calibre and breadth.""---Jeremy Jennings, Engelsberg Ideas"

"""Few, if any, have got the gist of the Geist. Until now, that is. In Hegel’s World Revolutions, Richard Bourke offers a major re-evaluation of not only Hegel’s philosophy of history but also the history of his philosophy. . . . To understand Hegel, you must read Bourke.""---Daniel Johnson, The Critic ""Richard Bourke is a formidably talented political historian. . . . Hegel’s World Revolutions displays a knowledge of its protagonist’s thought which may well be unequalled in Britain. Its mountain of secondary sources is just as impressive.""---Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books ""What has enduring influence is Hegel’s historical analysis, and Mr. Bourke provides a learned case for its brilliance and relevance. . . . Mr. Bourke in particular has effectively rebuked the overheated anathemas of Hegel produced by Berlin and Popper . . . [and] their authoritarian Hegel must now confront Mr. Bourke’s cosmopolitan, pluralistic and liberal version.""---Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal ""[A] breathtaking intellectual tour de force. . . . A book of such unrelenting intellectual calibre and breadth.""---Jeremy Jennings, Engelsberg Ideas ""A masterclass in scholarship.""---Max Skjönsberg, Law & Liberty ""Hegel’s World Revolutions represents arguably the most original contribution to Hegel scholarship in some time. . . .A comprehensive yet succinct and elegant exposition of Hegel’s thought that attests to his great importance as a leading philosopher of modernity.""---Adam Coleman, Oxford Political Review ​​​​​​​ ""Bourke’s defence of the German philosopher against a motley crew of post-war cynics and political idealists is historically thorough and philosophically compelling, every sentence of it delivered with a clarity that will make the layman rejoice and the specialist grunt with envy""---Harrison Pitt, The European Conservative ""This study helps readers to appreciate the diagnostic function of the history of political thought and to consider its implications for our own time."" * Paradigm Explorer * ""[The book] serves as boundless food for thought. . . .The sort of political philosophy that one has come to naturally align with such a brilliant mind as the man himself."" * David Marx Book Reviews * ""[Hegel’s World Revolutions] is decorously scholarly: exhaustively researched, laden with footnotes, its argument infused with nuance throughout.""---Seamus Flaherty, Merion West ""[Bourke’s] project is immense in terms of its scope. It is hard not to be impressed by the breadth of his study as he meticulously discusses the fate of Hegelian philosophy in both the continental and the Anglo-Saxon traditions.""---Umur Başdaş, Contemporary Political Theory"

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Richard Bourke is professor of the history of political thought and a fellow of King's College at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of a number of books, including Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (Princeton).

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