Hegel's formation in old Wurttemberg -- Protestant seminary in Tubingen -- From Berne to Frankfurt to Jena: Failed projects and fresh starts -- Texts and drafts: Hegel's path to the Phenomenology from Frankfurt to Jena -- Phenomenology of spirit: Hegel finds his voice -- Life in transition -- Nuremberg respectability -- From the Phenomenology to the "System": Hegel's logic -- Heidelberg: Coming into focus -- Berlin: Reform and repression at the focal point (1818-1821) -- Assertion: Berlin,Paris (1824-1827) -- Thinking through modern life: Nature, religion, art, and the absolute

1. Hegel
2. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
3. 1770-1831
4. Philosophers -- Germany -- Biography