George di Giovanni
Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, McGill University
- German Idealism
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Religion
George di Giovanni is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at McGill University (Montréal), where he taught for over fifty years. His mentors are Emil Fackenheim and H. S. Harris. Classical German Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion are his areas of special interest, even though he has also lectured extensively on Kierkegaard and French phenomenology.
He authored Freedom and Religion in Kant and his Immediate Successors (2005), Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza (2021), and numerous other studies on figures of the later German Enlightenment and early Romanticism. He is the editor and translator of numerous texts of Jacobi, Kant, and Hegel, including Hegel’s Greater Logic (2010).
Most recent books
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Monograph
Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza
A Study in German Idealism, 1801–1831
Cambridge University Press
2021 -
Translation, with notes and introductory study
The Science of Logic
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Cambridge University Press
2010 -
Monograph
Freedom and Religion in Kant and His Immediate Successors
The Vocation of Humankind, 1774–1800
Cambridge University Press
2005
Regarding the translation of Hegel’s Greater Logic, readers have kindly alerted me to a number of errors. Most are innocuous, but two are serious. I have documented all in three notes published in the Owl of Minerva; see here.
For some reflections on Hegel’s Logic and Hegel’s idea of Religion, go to the indicated links.
Video of a presentation on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Hegel’s birth, August 2020, can be found here.
An abbreviated CV can be found here.