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There are seemingly endless "handbooks" and "basic principles" texts on the market for almost any topic or specialty in the mental health field. What distinguishes this book from others of its kind is its accessibility, breadth and clarity. It identifies the relevant questions in the field and addresses them without sacrificing clinical sophistication. As someone who is not a forensic specialist, I found I could readily apply the content of this book to the subset of my patients for whom this material is relevant. This is a great resource. Highly recommended.

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Many requests for information about how to obtain this book have been sent to the editor. Most problems related to the fact that the publisher of the First Printing no longer owns the rights to the book. The current publisher of the Second Printing (i.e. a second printing of the First Edition) of this book is Edward Arnold Publishers, based in London, Enlgand. The date of the Second Printing is 1998. Books from Edward Arnold Publishers are distributed in the USA by Oxford University Press, located in New York, N.Y. Other persons have inquired when the next completely new Second Edition will be available. The editor is working hard on this project, but the new book will not be available for several years, i.e. probably in 2003.

This is one of those standards that ocean liner enthusiasts must have. The information is great, the photos and layout are well done, it's a great book all the way around. I highly recommend this one.

This 1999 German book, translated into English in 2000, is well balanced between informative text and wonderful art. It is illustrated with very nice black and white photographs and color drawings. Each ship covered is illustated with a side profile - I'm not certain, but each of these profiles looks like it is drawn to scale with all the others in the book, which visually shows how the shipbuilder's art has progressed over the years. Accompanying each profile for each ship is a specification of the ship and a brief career history.

Note however, that the book is MUCH more than these little profiles - I just found them to be a nice added touch, just like I found the photographs of each man responsible for each ship's construction. The chapters are broken into into intelligent historical periods and the text and illustration captions are informative and smart.

The book conveys the pride that the people (and governments!) associated with these vessels had for their ships. As the author states, the Blue Riband was never a formal competition. As a consequence, there never was an official history kept about it. However, this book does an excellent job of filling that void.

This 1999 German book, translated into English in 2000, is well balanced between informative text and wonderful art. It is illustrated with very nice black and white photographs and color drawings. Each ship covered is illustated with a side profile - I'm not certain, but each of these profiles looks like it is drawn to scale with all the others in the book, which visually shows how the shipbuilder's art has progressed over the years. Accompanying each profile for each ship is a specification of the ship and a brief career history.

Note however, that the book is MUCH more than these little profiles - I just found them to be a nice added touch, just like I found the photographs of each man responsible for each ship's construction. The chapters are broken into into intelligent historical periods and the text and illustration captions are informative and smart.

The book conveys the pride that the people (and governments!) associated with these vessels had for their ships. As the author states, the Blue Riband was never a formal competition. As a consequence, there never was an official history kept about it. However, this book does an excellent job of filling that void.

Well illustrated with many seldom seen photographs, paintings and drawings, "Record Breakers" is a excellent account of the quest for speed on the North Atlantic. Kludas' text is informative and at times technical without being dry or difficult to read. Each Atlantic record breaker since the SS Great Western of 1838 is described in detail and depicted with an original profile drawing, most of which are in color. Some notable ships are covered in less detail even though they were never record breakers. A small section tiled "Super-liners that never were" covers several shipbuilding projects which were never completed.

Liners of all eras (Kludas identifies three distinct periods of Atlantic steam travel) are covered more or less equally, and thus the ten 20th century liners have fewer pages devoted to them than the 26 19th century ships. Just the same, the coverage of the newer ships is excellent and includes little known facts and aspects of each. Strongly Recommended.

Kludas worked for 18 years in a Hamburg shipyard: his background lends to Record Breakers Of The North Atlantic, a beautifully illustrated history of blue riband liners from 1938-1952. Chapters blend a history of specific liners with black and white and color photos and illustration, providing a colorful examination highly recommended for any fan of nautical history.

I'm only around a quarter of the way through this book. But it has been so good that even if all the rest of the pages were blank, I'd still give it a strong five stars. This is one work of literary criticism that is worth every literature reader's time.

I've been reading Proust off and on for over thirty years, and Proust is easily my favorite author. But when I read Weinstein's book, my eyes really opened. Even with my already deep appreciation of Proust, I had no idea of how much I was missing, or how superficially I was reading.

I can't say enough about this book. It has taught me so much already about literature, how to read (more deeply and carefully), about what Modernism is (something I've never understood until reading this book, and I have taken whole college courses on just that topic), about the arts in general, and, finally, about life. What a great book, a classic; for few books manage to bring such deep and meaty relevance, along with pure enjoyment into their pages.

Reading this book makes me dearly wish that Weinstein lived in my neighborhood. I would love to have him over as a dinner guest. I'd make sure the meals were extra tasty and that his wine glass was always filled with good wine. I'd love to converse with him (that would be a pure joy) and I would be happy to promise him that I would do most of the listening!

If you care about the arts, modernism, the great authors he discusses, as well as the nature of a human life (your life included), then do yourself a favor and buy this book. It will be one you always treasure. It's easily the best book I've read this year, and possibly one of the best books I have ever read.

Arnold Weinstein has been teaching Proust, Joyce and Faulkner (and many other writers) to students at Brown for more than 30 years. Recovering Your Story is his seminal work sharing his life's study of these writers with general readers for the first time. His readings of Proust, Joyce, Faulkner, Morrison and Woolf are without peer - instead of the garbled prose of the academy, Weinstein delivers a poetic and humanistic argument for why these authors speak to us now and will speak to so many generations to come. But more importantly, it is Weinstein's argument itself about literature and life and the relationship between the two that speaks to us as few critics do today. In a world where reading - especially among young people - seems to take a back seat to other media, Weinstein passionately makes the case for the experience of sitting down with a book and entering a writer's universe as an active participant. Reading in this fashion becomes a creative act and an act of self-making and self-discovery or, as Weinstein puts it, self-recovery; it provides us with access to parts of our lives that otherwise lay buried under the routine of every day life. In that way, literature - like all great art - draws us deeper into ourselves while inspiring us to live our lives more fully. Literature as such is a gift, and this remarkable book is a gift from one of the great humanist critics and thinkers on the scene today. This book should be of great interest not only to students of the specific authors and novels discussed, but to anybody interested in understanding life. The book rings with the truth of somebody who has lived a full and deeply contemplated life, and who has a great deal to teach students of all ages (we are all students, whatever our age) of how to continue to educate our brains and our hearts as we forge ahead through our lives.

This is my favorite of all of Weinstein's books (and I have read all of them) because it makes available some of the most challenging works of the twentieth century and in all of the ways that count. I think the piece on Virginia Woolf is the most sensitive and moving treatment of To the Lighthouse out there. His reading of Proust makes me have the courage to read the whole collection and I have just ordered it for my summer project. Though he has written a great deal elsewhere about Faulkner, Weinstein shows us that there are new ways of connecting with that text, and that the project of Modernism has much to offer all readers still. Though I am not wild about his title, the first few chapters show the logic of it. I urge readers to read the whole damn thing. This is an English teacher's treasure trove. Morrison's Beloved is beautifully explained and "uncovered." What a fresh take on these familiar authors!

I have been working for a long time writing a novel: this work elicits polar opposite reactions from readers (when I have them) and I did not know what to think except that I decided I better learn how to read (although I did read voraciously) as well as how write fiction. How lucky I was to come across Arnold Weinstein's Recovering Your Story early in this quest! He traces how Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and VA Woolf (the ones I have read--also Wm Faulkner and Toni Morrison come under his reading eye) drew their writing problems from their own lives (why Proust felt a glow from a tea-dunked Madeleine, why VA and her siblings peered through the gate of the house by the sea one evening shortly after their father died) and pulled their readers into those worlds with new forms prose that brought the writer and reader closer together. As Hermione Lee, chairman of the 2006 Booker prize committee, said all the novels entered in that competition had as their message, "something happened." This work will let the reader see how several great writers sorted out "something happened" and developed the writing styles and forms that let the reader experience it.

Professor Weinstein speaks with warmth of his journey with these authors and conveys the growth that can be gained by traveling with them. Though they have a reputation for difficulty, he communicates the richness and depth won from living through their characters. The mundane, painful and joyful can be met with more insight and appreciation, if we can witness our own inner narration. From the moment we wake, memories and observations, thoughts and feelings emerge and form our (often chaotic) inner world. To witness this story and create meaningful links is to recover our own story everyday. As a result, we can weather the tragedy with more grace and laugh harder at the comedy.

This marriage of poetry and illustrations is like no other. As an educator I enjoy the layout of the book. The poems are divided into categories such as poems about weather, spooky poems, and animal poems. The illustrations are by Caldecott Medal artists - the best of the best! I have purchased countless copies of Sing a Song of Popcorn as it is a perfect gift to give to families to celebrate the arrival of a new baby. It is a book that all members of the family can enjoy - the young ones will enjoy the rhyming patterns of some of the poems and the silliness of others. The adults will treasure the inclusion of such classic poems as Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and Jack Prelutsky's entertaining "The Spaghetti Nut".

I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of poetry and the beautiful illustrations which accompany. As a kindergarten teacher, I found the anthology to be an invaluable resource for introducing young children (or any children) to the world of poetry. :

Our girl's book club is reading this book of poems. Once they finish they will each get to keep a copy of the book. Poems are classic and the pictures are amazing. It's the best poem book so far!

This is a wonderful anthology of poetry, beautifully illustrated
by well known children's artists. I have 6 grandchildren, ranging from babies to a 9 year old. This book has material for
all ages, and it is well organized by subjects..."spooky poems",
"mostly nonsense", etc. The kids love it and so do I.

You don't have to be a certain age to enjoy this book, full of wonderful poems from various well known poets. There is a poem for every walk of life in this book. This book is sure to be on your shelf for many years to come!

I loved listening to this with my 2 1/2 year old daughter. The songs are fun, upbeat and make you sing out loud with the cd!

Great fun for everyone. Kids really love Linda's voice and the songs are fun.

My kids and I have worn out two CD's! It's one of those catchy sing-a-long's that I find myself singing to! My children have loved this CD and it's a big hit on trips. I recommend it highly for any child and/or parent!

My 3 year olds love the non-stop perkiness of this album. But be forewarned - You'll be singing the upbeat tunes with your kids (and without them). Some songs that aren't ordinarily included in children's recordings appear here,such as "Los Colores" and add color and variety to the selections, and old favorites like "5 Little Ducks" provide familiarity. Works very well on car trips. Highly recommended.

We heard about this cassette in Family Fun magazine. Once our first copy wore out, we had to order another one from Amazon. All my boys enjoy it; my husband and I also find it is our first choice when we are all in the car.

I am a School Psychologist and I use this program with Middle School students. The lessons are age-appropriate and easy to implement. The teacher checklist in the back is also very helpful in planning which lessons to use. I also use, and love, the early childhood and elementary skillstreaming programs.

I came across this book while working with a group of middle school students who were lacking social skills. This book provides step by step social skills information directed at the specific deficiencies. I am looking forward to continuing to work with the information I have gathered from reading this book.

This book is primarily directed at teachers and professionals trying to manage and socially 'skill' aggressive and delinquent adolescents. The book consists of short exercises sandwiched between buffers of explanatory material. The exercises are fairly much standard prosocial activities involving discussions and role-plays. As an overview, or outline, of what to do, these are good. However, the instructional sequences are short, and occassionally vague. My overall reaction to the book is that it needs a companion manual to realise its usefulness. There is also a deal of repetition of points that may or may not be useful depending on the audience. The amount of explanatory text is high for a book that is not theoretically laden down, and this weakened its appeal to me. In my own opinion, it is hard to beat (pardon the pun) for detail Teaching Social Skills from the Boystown Press for this youth segment.

I was introduced to this book by the co-ordinator of out patient services as a book that she thought highly of in working with adolescents. A chronically mentally ill client from my program was seeing her outpatient for counseling and she thought the book may work well in assisting the client with social skills. On an individual basis it worked very well with the client. We decided to start a group within our program to see how it would work with other chronically mentally ill clients and it has worked extremely well.

A super book for working with socially challenged youth. High risk kids often get into trouble because they don't possess appropriate social skills, and they are not motivated to practice positive skills. They simply don't see the value. All to often their innappropriate skills have been rewarded in life. This book prepares teachers and adolescent group leaders to develop missing social skills in a step by step well thought out and research proven manner. The book also prepares the leader with great stratagies for recognizing and dealing with trainee/client resistance. Of course in your group you will not experience this. If you really want results and not just feel good discussions with kids this material is state of the art. Highly recommended!

This is one of the greatest novels ever written. Whites style is always powerful;each word, each paragraph builds vividly in your mind, and within a simple story framework he explores how human ambitions, hopes and dreams are eroded by nature and the eras we live in.
All that occurs is that Stan Parker builds his farm,takes a wife,has two children,lives through flood and drought and sees the area in which he lives expand,grow and change. No one but a supreme master craftsman can illuminate such a plot with such powerful and biblical imagry (man in Eden,the brief hopes,the failings and disallussions of human existence,the reuniting with God)
So powerful was the writing that, when White refered to a sewing machine on a hill late in the book,the image created in my mind some 400 pages earlier of that scene during the great flood instantly came back. White has that unique capability.
And the story rings true for all of us. Stan had his dreams of how things would grow,yet it is things outside our control that thwart these ambitions. Was it his fault Thelma grew up ashamed of her parents and as a prissy shrew? Or that Ray turned out to be a petty hoodlum and ended up being murdered? Something in human nature makes us blame ourselves for other peoples free will.
An extraordinary book.Not for those who like something quick and easy,but definately for anyone who loves literature and wants to be wholly absorbed for the duration of a classic book.

Patrick White is one of those rare writers - Well, the only other one that comes to mind is Halldor Laxness - who is able to create great literature out of the seemingly mundane. How he accomplishes this feat is not a simple matter to explain in a review, but it has, in part, to do with what White describes here as the "mysticism of objects, of which some people are initiates." I could say that this is primarily a book about an uneducated fellow in the Australian Outback who clears some land, raises a family and then dies. I would be quite correct, just as correct as I would be in reviewing Laxness' book, Independent People, as a story about sheep. But I would be leaving out, well, thunderbolts like this:

"Iron lace hung from dark pubs, and the heavy smells of spilled beer. Dreams broke from windows. And cats lifted the lid off all politeness." P.22 (in my edition).


But, more importantly, I would be omitting what perhaps can't be included, the deep sense of wonder imbued in the sinews of the work. It makes all modern novels with blurbs such as "ends by exposing the dark forces at play within the heart of man" and such like ring hollow and trite. All forces of the heart, dark and light, are at play throughout the book, from first page to last, but the reader has to let these forces slowly seep into his or her own heart and mind. They aren't emblazoned on a marquee. They aren't easily accessed. But, for that, they are the more dearly prized once they begin to stir one.

It's no great surprise that there are so few reviews here of this quiet, deep work of art. To the average reader, it must come across as ineffably boring, but, for lovers of literature and art, it is moving beyond my ability to convey, moving "with all the appearance of aimlessness, which is the impression that spiritual activity frequently gives." P.397

This is a truly extraordinary novel. It demands a certain amount of quiet to be read well. I found myself reading it more like poetry. Because of White's compelling storytelling and writing style, it held my attention despite the fact that very litte happens. Perfect to take on trains, airplanes, or to the beach.

In the tradition of DH Lawrence, Thomas Mann and Halldor Laxness, Patrick White has written a story that teases out the secrets of a family's existence and, in so doing, explores, without ever mentioning them expressly, the issues and mysteries universal to humanity.

The plot could barely be simpler. In the early days of Australia's nationhood a young man and his wife set off into the bush to begin their lives together. They find some land, build a house, have a family, grow old and finally die. Around them the dramas of life unfold: friendships, disasters, disappointments and infidelities. The book is less about them, though, than about the unremarkable moments in between. These times of quietness are White's triumphs. His unhurried prose admits us to the intimacies of the characters, their griefs, their dreams and their successes. We share in the man's unarticulated affinity with the land, the woman's chronic loneliness. We notice how many words are never spoken, how many uncertainties never resolved.

By the end, one sees that the characters' struggles are his struggles. Briefly, perhaps, one's view of life becomes wider than his self, and a larger landscape, if not a plan, crystallises in the world. You finish the last page, close the book and sit still and speechless for a second, as if someone real has died.

I have read two of White's novels: the present work and Voss. The present novel, The Tree of Man, is more complex than Voss, and unlike Voss here the author manages to breath some life into the characters.

Patrick White gained fame as the Australian Nobel prize winner in literature, and as a person with a prickly or difficult personality. He was educated at Cambridge but settled and wrote in Australia after World War II. He wrote about a dozen novels and a biography.

This is a good novel and it deserves 5 stars. After a dozen pages or so it becomes clear to the reader why White is famous: he has an unusual style and he is a gifted writer. There is no question about his writing ability. We see great writing ability in Voss and that skill is present in The Tree of Man.

The story is set in rural farm country in Australia and it follows the life of a young couple through to their deaths at old age. The male protagonist is a bit like the Voss character. In any case, we follow their lives, and the births and lives of their two children, and the lives of a few of their neighbours. The story describes the day to day life of a typical farming couple, along with the problems and challenges of raising children on a small rural farm. The story of the two children are followed into the marriage of the daughter and we follow the troubles of the adult son with the law.

I liked the way White handled the four family members. The lives of the four are realistic and interesting; they are human and one can relate to their actions. The discouraging feature of some of White's writing is that the characters seem stiff or cardboard like. His Voss character was not a man to show much emotion or talk. There are any passages that simply describe Voss's activities in that slightly dry book. The present book is much more complicated and White does a much better job with his characters. They are human and give way to temptations. Each character shows a wide range of human emotions.

Overall, I thought it was a good book and an interesting read and an interesting book to read if you are interested in the works of Patrick White.

Excellent recipes, very accessible - not full of esoteric ingredients that you'll only ever use once. I wish there was a Wagamama in Portland :(

While Wagamama restaraunts are mostly known to those who have been to London, this cookbook is made for an American audience. They include cup and spoon measures, say shrimp instead of prawns, cillantro not corriander, snow peas not mange tout. However, the DVD that comes with it is of minimal use if you have any experience with stir-fry and they use British words. A great book for anyone wanting some slightly westernized Asian dishes, as well as those anglophiles longing for London. (Note: Not all the menu dishes are included. My favorite, chicken katsu curry is not in the book).

I've never done Japanese cooking before, but with this book I can. I have made four recipies from this book, and they have all turned out spectacularly well -- the sort of thing I thought was only available in a Japanese restaurant. Some of them have needed special ingredients, which is easy for me because I live in NY where there are Japanese groceries, but some need nothing more exotic than soy sauce. Terrific book: I hope they write more.

If you like asia food, this is a pretty good book with very easy cooking meals.
Very tasty food.

Wagamama is a Japanese-like restaurant I frequented while living in London. After going through withdrawals when I returned to California, I came across this cookbook. It is so good that you would not believe my review if I really, honestly wrote of how much I enjoy their food. The noodle dishes are best! For those of you who have not tried the food at Wagamama, think of simple and fresh ingredients tossed together in non-traditional ways. The recipes in this book are pretty easy and my limited skills in the kitchen are enough to make great meals.

The book has many beautiful pictures and may easily be dismissed as just another pictorial Chamber of Commerce celebration of a city's history, a "coffee-table book." But instead, it is a great and accurate account of a city built by Deutsch (Dutch & German) and Irish ethnics, written by a historian and public man of breadth and character, who is intimately familiar, through his family, with the history of the city of Albany to the mid-19th century. I am myself a historian of 19th century New York State, and found the book not only to be very informative, but enjoyable to read as well.

Bravo, finally a superb book on the history of Albany and Albany County by the man who lives and breathes Albany, John(Jack) McEneny. Such insight and history into a city I grew up in. From the dutch settlements through the great Democratic political Machine, Jack captures the essence of what Albany was and is like to this day. Memorable photos take you back to a wonderful time gone by. It is truly our great city on the Hudson. I HIGHLY recomend to all.

This Book Tells About Albany's History. John McEneny Did A Great Job On This Book. It Has The College Of St. Rose In It. It Also Has Historic Areas Like Lark St. Albany's Village, The South End's South Preal St., State St., The New York State Capital And Education Building, The Empire State Plaza, N.Y.S. Museum, The Corning Tower, And It's Bus Company Known As C.D.T.A.

John McEneny gives a full coverage of the history of Albany, NY. Well researched; easy to read; some great maps included.

Departing from his area of specialty, Nietzsche and the existentialists, Kaufmann is no less able to authoritatively present a balanced, masterful, thorough, yet concise analysis of the life and work of perhaps the least understood philosopher. As those who have assayed the Phenomenology or the Logic surely realize, exploring Hegel without a guide can be perilous. Kaufmann neutralizes many of the language barriers and ambiguities in Hegel's great works, clearly presents their core themes, and, much to the delight of this reader, locates them within the intellectual currents of the time and Hegel's own intellectual struggles and victories. As all soon find out, parsing a single work of Hegel's is less a challenge than understanding it in the broader context of Hegel's "system," let alone the movement begun by Kant and Fichte and carried onward by Schelling, Marx and others. Kaufmann brilliantly brings the reader from a tight focus on the many subtleties of Hegel's method to a broad view of the intellectual landscape of Hegel's Germany. An added bonus is a diligent if sometimes ascerbic analysis of key players in Hegelian scholarship.

When I was young, I was taught that I should appreciate J. S. Bach and other musical geniuses about like Walter Kaufmann grew up thinking that Hegel was really something. Kaufmann and I have both noticed how reluctant Hegel was to admit who he was talking about, so he considers it an anomaly on page 490 of the J. B. Baille translation of THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND that the name Oedipus has been inserted into the sentence "In the story of *OEdipus* the son does not see his own father in the person of the man who has insulted him . . ." Walter Kaufmann lists the persons whom Hegel actually mentioned in his manuscript ("only thirteen men and women are named." p. 125). I would say Kaufmann left out Julius Caesar, since the preface happens to discuss historical facts like the year in which Caesar was born. Reading the translation of the preface by Walter Kaufmann in HEGEL TEXT AND COMMENTARY, a separate paperback volume with the same index as HEGEL A REINTERPRETATION, is the best approach for understanding Kaufmann's method of explaining Hegel. His commentary in that book is mostly in the form of notes at particular places in the text, and they do not always refer to persons that might have been meant by Hegel, as a lot of philosophy has happened since Hegel, and Walter Kaufmann was aware of various interpretations and more modern philosophers like Kierkegaard and Heidegger (who, "unlike Hegel, seeks to move philosophy closer to poetry rather than science." note 10 on Commentary page 93). Having HEGEL A REINTERPRETATION as a separate book allows Kaufmann to try to demonstrate the scope of philosophy in a way that Hegel attempted to do, encompassing it all as no one had tried to do since Aristotle.

I learned a lot reading this book years ago, allowing myself to feel a lot like Fichte in the comparison, "Nobody today would rank Fichte with Kant;" (p.110). Self-consciousness in German is not quite what it is in America today, but a large part of how modern the intrusive nature of our media has allowed us to become is the constant measure of our own sorry self-consciousnesses becoming aware of each other, a very Hegelian philosophical theme. The appreciation of particular geniuses in our own day might be troubled by knowledge such as Kaufmann's, that "There are not many non-German composers in a class with Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; and during their era German poetry was coming into its own, too. The great achievements of the period were triumphs of the artistic imagination." (p. 114). Our own composers always seem to be thinking about something else instead of what it would take to make their music better.

Did anybody notice how long the song "Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" was on Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" album? If "the drilling in the wall kept up, but no one seemed to pay it any mind" could be applied to philosophy, it might be as a form of consciousness which seeks to avoid an overwhelming awareness of anything which is actually going on. Hegel ought to be considered good for philosophy in the way that Bob Dylan would be good for people whose interest in music involves owning the rights to the songs. The big legal questions in our society are about who has to pay for people to keep singing or swapping this stuff. Most people who buy this book will read it as consumers. Hegel was usually not a philosopher to be considered dangerous, but somehow, people like Marx, who read Hegel as an introduction to how unsettled things of their own day were, were dangerous in a lot of intellectual fields. I learned a lot about Fichte the first time I read this book. His attempt to identify God with a moral world order is clearly stated, and it only takes a little knowledge of human nature to see how his career suffered the consequences, with the result, "Accused of atheism, he published a couple of vigorous defenses in 1799 and threatened to resign if reprimanded, which was construed as a resignation--and he was let go." (p. 102). Hegel managed to avoid getting clobbered in that kind of argument, and modern philosophy has a lot of appreciation for everything he managed to say without causing a lot of trouble. This book pulls it all together.

....do start here, for Kaufmann is an able Hegel commentator, clarifier, and critic.

Walter Kaufmann's study of Hegel is astonishingly erudite and highly-readable. It is not intended to be an overview of Hegel's thought; rather, it is a supplement to further study.

Kaufmann is mostly occupied with correcting previous misinterpretations of Hegel's thought, providing useful philological material, and interpreting Hegel's philosophy in the light of extensive biographical research. It is clearly the outcome of many years of intensive study, and one comes away with the impression that Kaufmann pored over every letter and monograph he could find.

What the book does NOT contain is a clear, flowing exegesis or interpretation of Hegel's thought. Unlike Kaufmann's "Nietzsche", Hegel's development is looked at chronologically. It is difficult to get a clear sense of Hegel's overarching thought from this study. Bursts of commentary and exegesis are broken by long, technical digressions. A wealth of footnotes provides extreme detail about discrepancies in different versions of Hegel's texts and comments on their editors and redactors.

If you are looking for a tool to assist you in reading Hegel for yourself, this book will make a valuable companion. As an introduction to the thought of Hegel, I recommend Charles Taylor's Hegel and Modern Society.