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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1807, G.W.F. Hegel's remarkable philosophical text examines the dynamics of human experience from its simplest beginnings in consciousness through its development into more complex forms. In this edition, Peter Fuss and John Dobbins provide a succinct, highly informative, introduction to several key concepts in Hegel's thinking.
Trade Review"The translators succeed masterfully in this effort and the result makes a considerable contribution to understanding this formidable text. . . . As I read their introduction, I had the impression that Hegel was suddenly—wonder of wonders—speaking English! Perhaps for the first time, he was saying clearly what he wanted to say to native speakers of American English like myself." —Daniel O. Dahlstrom, John R. Silber Professor of Philosophy, Boston University
"An entrenched failing of Anglo-American philosophy is its neglect of Hegel. We have yet to reckon with how Hegel overcomes the dichotomies that confine modernity. Through decades of collaborative research, Peter Fuss and John Dobbins deliver with precision and grace a readable and teachable The Phenomenology of Spirit. Readers will awaken to a worldly Hegel who penetrates the drama and conceptual dynamism of human experience." —Patrick Murray and Jeanne Schuler, Creighton University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Translators’ Introduction
Preface
Introduction 1 Sense-Certainty: the This & Meaning
2 Perception: Things & Illusoriness
3 Force and Understanding, Appearances & the Supersensuous World
4 Self-Certainty’s Truth
4.A. Self-Consciousness Dependent & Independent: Mastery and Servitude
4.B. The Freedom of Self-Consciousness; Stoicism, Skepticism, & the Unhappy Consciousness
5 Reason: its Certainty and its Truth
5.A. Observational Reason
a. Observation of Nature
b. Observation of Self-Consciousness in its Purity & in Relation to External Actuality: Logical & Psychological Laws
c. Observation of the Relation of Self-Consciousness to Immediate Actuality: Physiognomy & Phrenology
5.B. The Self-Actualization of Rational Self-Consciousness
a. Pleasure and Necessity
b. The Law of the Heart & Arrogance Run Amok
c. Virtue & the Way of the World
5.C. Individuality that Deems Itself Genuinely Real In & For Itself
a. A Realm of Intelligent Animals and Deceit: the Abiding Concern
b. Legislative Reason
c. Reason Putting Law to the Test
6 Spirit
6.A. Pristine Spirit: the Ethical Way of Life
a. he Ethical World: Law Human & Divine, Man & Woman
b. Ethical Action: Knowledge Human & Divine, Guilt & Destiny
c. Legal Status
6.B. Spirit Estranged From Itself: Culture
1 The World of Self-Estranged Spirit
a. Culture & Its Sphere of Actuality
b. Faith & Pure Insight
2 Enlightenment
a. Enlightenment’s Struggle with Superstition
b. The Truth of Enlightenment
3 Total Freedom & Terror
6.C. Spirit Certain of Itself: Morality
a. The Moral World-View
b. Misrepresentation
c. Conscience; the Beautiful Soul: Evil and its Forgiveness
7 Religion
7.A. Natural Religion
a. The Divine Light
b. Plant & Animal
c. The Artificer
7.B. Art-Religion
a. The Abstract Artwork
b. The Living Artwork
c. The Spiritual Artwork
7.C. Manifest Religion
8 Absolute Knowledge
