Among his recent jingoistic outbursts, President-elect Donald Trump stated in a social media post that American possession of Greenland is an “absolute necessity” for national security, and.

Allen Wood is a world-famous authority on nineteenth-century German idealism, and his books on Kant, Fichte, and Hegel are well worth careful study. He combines the skills of an analytic philosopher in assessing arguments with deep sympathy for philosophers outside the mainstream of the analytic tradition, and he is often able to show that what these philosophers said makes sense and is insightful.