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Book SynopsisHoward Kainz addresses several areas of Hegel's Phenomenology that are often overlooked in the interest of ensuring that readers do not "miss the trees for the forest." He argues that these "trees" are of interest in their own right, and keys to the ongoing appreciation of Hegel's work.
Trade ReviewHegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: Not Missing the Trees for the Forest is the work of a well-known Hegel scholar who has already published many books on Hegel. [Kainz's] approach allows us to see the figures in Hegel’s Phenomenology not only as steps towards the Absolute, but also as subjective positions in the sense of Melanie Klein and thus of psychoanalysis. Not only people interested in Hegel, but also people interested in understanding the psychic structure of regularly appearing characters will find in this work a goldmine. -- Wilfried Ver Eecke, Georgetown University
Kainz provides an entertaining study of the ideas of one of the nineteenth century's most influential philosophers. * Book News, Inc., August 2008 *
Howard Kainz, the most important specialist and commentator of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, presents here in clear English not only all of Hegel's central concepts in that pivotal book of 1807, but also their dialectical evolvement out of self-negating contradictions within thought and reality in a way that discloses their objective truth. Virtually all concepts within the Phenomenology and hence within the modern objective scientific and cultural world come to life in this book: from the cause of the Zerissenheit, the distraughtfulness of the modern world and its apprehension, to the emergence of a new, subjectively seated and hence relative morality, together with the necessarily inadequate spirit of tolerance, to the reconciliation of the daseienden Geist, the existent spirit, which is God appearing in and through externalized forms as reconciled self- and other-recognition and affirmation. -- Rolf Ahlers, the Sage Colleges
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 1. The Phenomenon of Language in Hegel's Phenomenology Chapter 3 2. Character Types in the Phenomenology Chapter 4 3. Phenomenological Themes Chapter 5 4. Kierkegaard and the Phenomenology Chapter 6 5. Hegel's Unsystematic Systematization Chapter 7 6. The Phenomenology and Literature Chapter 8 7. "Absolute Knowledge" and the History of Modern Philosophy
