Wallace, Robert M. Review of Frederick Beiser, ed. CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO HEGEL AND NINETEENTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY. NDPR (February 2009).

Beiser, Frederick C., ed. Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. Cambridge: CUP, 2008. Fred Beiser has edited a successor volume to the original Cambridge Companion to Hegel (1993). The contributions are all brand new, and many of them explore areas in Hegel that were treated poorly or not at all in the original Companion, including Hegel's philosophy of religion, his philosophy of nature (the subject of three first-rate essays here), his aesthetics (two essays), and his relation to hermeneutics and to mysticism. The title is quite misleading; the book deals only with Hegel and his immediate predecessors and contemporaries. As with many Cambridge Companions, the book isn't really designed for beginners. For students who have some relevant background, and for scholars, the book is a very high quality collection covering quite a lot of what a comprehensive volume on Hegel should cover. It omits only a couple of what I take to be key topics, which I'll touch on below. . . . Read the rest here: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=15345.