Solomon, Robert C. - Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of life

Twenty years ago, when I was wrestling with the rather impenetrable prose of the German idealist G.W.F. Hegel, I tried to capture his grand vision of the human cosmos, which he summarized in his first and greatest book, Die Phenomenologie des Geistes, as "Spirit" (Geist). The result of that wrestling match was the fattest book I have written (or will ever write), a 600 page tome entitled In the Spirit of Hegel. It was a gigantic departure from my former views and temperament, which I would still summarize as "existentialist."