Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)

This is Paul Redding's Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, maintained by the Metaphysics Research Lab at Stanford University, first published in 1997 and periodically revised since. As a peer-reviewed, continuously revised scholarly reference by a specialist in German idealism it covers Hegel's system, his dialectical method and his standing in the history of philosophy. Its strength is that Stanford Encyclopedia entries undergo editorial review and revision by recognized specialists, distinguishing them from a fixed-edition monograph that cannot be updated. Its limit is that Hegel's own writing is famously difficult and contested in interpretation, so a claim resting on one specific, disputed reading of Hegel should be checked against the wider secondary literature the entry itself surveys.