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The Heterodox Hegel, by Cyril O'Regan. Albany: State University Press of New York, 1994 xv. + 515 pp. $74.50 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).
O'Regan has written an original and valuable book dealing with issues at the center of Hegel's thought. The work is awesome in its scope, detail, and attention to nuance in both Hegel's writings and in the extensive body of commentary provoked by the complexity of Hegel's thought. Even the most sympathetic reader can be forgiven, however, for wishing now and then that the treasure freight have been made available without all the rigors of the treasure hunt! The author makes it clear from the outset that only the uninitiated or the willful interpreter of Hegel will try to blllnt his insistence that the all-encompassing aim of his philosophy was to articulate the content of Christianity, the revealed religion, in terms of the Begriff the form of thought most adequate for expressing philosophical truth. The only remaining question, then, is, What version or versions of Christianity did Hegel adopt?...