Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: With the death of Michael Inwood, the world of Hegel scholarship has lost a prolific and important author on Hegel, as well as a skilled translator of his work.Although family commitments in Greece over the summer often prevented him from attending the annual HSGB conference, Inwood contributed regularly to the Bulletin, including a conference paper that he gave in 2018 on Hegel, Aristotle and the principle of non-contradiction, which was to be his last publication (2020).He also published reviews in the journal, and a typically learned discussion note 'Hegel, Alexander, and the Lentils' (1997), in which his erudition is deployed to track down a reference in Hegel's aesthetics, displaying the kind of classical scholarship that was often to stand him in good stead in his reading of Hegel.I first came to know Inwood personally when he acted as one of the two examiners for my PhD (alongside Michael Rosen, also then at Oxford).I still remember the twinkly-eyed kindness with which he probed my arguments and responded to my undoubtedly naïve thoughts.We met periodically after that, and although we were never close, I have always felt indebted to his written work, and greatly admired his obvious personal qualities as a scholar, a teacher and a member of the academic community.Michael James Inwood (or Mike as he was known to friends and family) was born on 2 December 1944 in London, the eldest of three siblings.He was awarded a scholarship to Alleyn's School in Dulwich and went on to study Classics at University College Oxford.He became a Fellow of Trinity College Oxford in 1967, where he remained throughout his life.Those who knew him speak of his supportiveness as a supervisor of undergraduate and graduate students-and of the legendary messiness of his study, which can be tantalisingly glimpsed in the background of a few photographs of him at work.Whilst he published and researched more widely (particularly on Heidegger), Inwood will be best known to the Hegel community for his publications on Hegel, and for his edited collections and translations and re-translations, which often included extensive and very useful paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries.Inwood's most significant work in the field is his book entitled simply Hegel, published in 1983 in the prestigious 'Arguments of the Philosophers' series by
Source: Hegel Bulletin
DOI: 10.1017/hgl.2022.47
Author: Robert Stern
Institution: University of Sheffield
Language: Dutch
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4313827908