Three American Hegels explores Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s influence on three seminal, yet overlooked, philosophers: Henry C. Brokmeyer, Horace Williams, and John William Miller. Each of them was, in his own way, both an apprentice of Hegel and a true American original: Brokmeyer, the backwoods translator of Hegel; Williams, the mentor of Southern Hegelianism; Williams, the Hegelian teacher of democracy. Until now, their influence on the one school of philosophy that is distinctly grounded in the U.S. experience—pragmatism—has been overlooked, along with the intellectual history of how their contributions developed. Such neglect has resulted in an underestimation of the role that the theories of Hegel played in the development of American philosophy. To unearth these formative yet forgotten works and influences, Johnson explores their respective untapped archives and unearths a three-generation story of a Hegel that is thoroughly practical, concrete, and alive.
Introduction
Part I: Henry C. Brokmeyer: “The Translator of Frontier Hegelianism”
Chapter 1: Brokmeyer & The St. Louis Hegelians
Chapter 2: Brokmeyer’s Wissenschaft der Logik
Chapter 3: Brokmeyer’s Frontier Hegelianism
Part II: Horace Williams: “The Mentor of Southern Hegelianism”
Chapter 4: Horace, An Introduction
Chapter 5: Honeysuckle Hegel
Chapter 6: Dialectical with a Drawl
Part III: John William Miller: “The Teacher of the Metaphysics of Democracy”
Chapter 7: The Act and Actuality
Chapter 8: Responsibility
Chapter 9: Concrete Universality and the Midworld
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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