Abstract

By including aspects of human thought and culture in his system, Hegel invited comparison of his thought with other thinkers and even other genres. David Punter has made such a comparison in Blake, Hegel, and Dialectic. Such a comparative work is extremely difficult to pull off because of the difficulty of explicating the central concepts of two such great and diverse thinkers and then finding a common ground for comparison. Punter is a Blake scholar whose previous publications reflect this interest. For a non-philosopher to tackle the concept of dialectic in Hegel is a difficult task indeed.