This translation from Russian of "The Philosophy of Hegel as a Doctrine of the Concreteness of God and Humanity" marks the first appearance in English of any of the works of Russian philosopher Ivan Aleksandrovich Il in. Originally published in 1918, on the eve of the Russian civil war, this two-volume commentary on Hegel marked both an apogee of Russian Silver Age philosophy and a significant manifestation of the resurgence of interest in Hegel that began in the early twentieth century.

A. F. Losev accurately observed in the same year it appeared: Neither the study of Hegel nor the...