Behind the Masks – Hegel and Henry James
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Henry James: great names in philosophy and literature, the first from the very early years of the nineteenth century, the second from the very last years. Hegel was the deep and complex German philosopher who constructed a far-reaching and systematic analysis of God, nature, mankind and history. James was the author of almost twenty full-length novels and over fifty short stories, all depicting the lives of wealthy, fastidious personalities, those who constituted the social elite of English and American society from the 1870s to the end of the century....