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The two sets of lectures given by Hegel during his period at Jena and generally known as Realphilosophie I and Realphilosophie II occupy a unique place in the development of Hegel's system.¹Real philosophie II, which is far more extensive in its section dealing with Geistesphilosophie, is the more important for any attempt to reconstruct the stages of Hegel's philosophy of society and state. Rosenzweig saw in it Hegel's first detailed attempt to describe the middle zone between the state and pre-political man, the zone Hegel will later call "civil society."² Marcuse sees here Hegel's first discussion of the historical realization of the free subject and the various spheres of integration through which consciousness has to pass.³ And to Lukács the Jenenser Realphilosophie signifies Hegel's construction of man's own self-creation by himself, die Menschenwerdung des Menschen.⁴

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-2434-1_16

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