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Book SynopsisHegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures provides a clear and philosophically engaging investigation of Hegel's first masterpiece, perhaps the most revolutionary work of modern philosophy. The book guides the reader on an intellectual adventure that takes up Hegel's revolutionary strategy of paving the way for doing philosophy without presuppositions by first engaging in a phenomenological investigation of knowing as it appears. That preliminary investigation observes how the prevailing view of knowing that condemns cognition to operating with presuppositions proves unable to justify its own knowledge claims and ends up undermining the distinction between knowing and its object on which that view depends. Unlike other studies of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, the work rethinks the entire argument with sustained attention to the project that gives the work its revolutionary significance. Free of unnecessary jargon and always focusing on clearly
Trade ReviewWinfield's book is a fresh look at an important text whose meaning is far from exhausted. . . .Winfield, in respect of the literature, gives a freer interpretation that seeks to reposition itself within the landscape of perpetually changing research on Hegel. * Archives de Philosophie *
Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Sense-Certainty Lecture 3: Perception Lecture 4: Understanding Lecture 5: Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness Lecture 6: The Freedom of Self-Consciousness: Stoicism, Skepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness Lecture 7: Reason as Observation of Nature Lecture 8: Reason as Observation of Self-Consciousness Lecture 9: Reason as Self-Actualization of Self-Consciousness Lecture 10: Reason as Individuality Real in and for itself Lecture 11: Spirit and the Ethical Order Lecture 12: Self-Alienated Spirit Lecture 13: The Enlightenment Lecture 14: Morality Lecture 15: Nature Religion and the Religion of Art Lecture 16: Revealed Religion Lecture 17: Absolute Knowing Works Cited Index
