Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on the contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations and citations
- Chapter 1 Substance, subject, system: the justification of science in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
- Chapter 2 “Science of the phenomenology of spirit”: Hegel's program and its implementation
- Chapter 3 The Phenomenology of Spirit as a “transcendentalistic” argument for a monistic ontology
- Chapter 4 Sense-certainty and the “this-such”
- Chapter 5 From desire to recognition: Hegel's account of human sociality
- Chapter 6 “Reason … apprehended irrationally”: Hegel's critique of Observing Reason
- Chapter 7 What is a “shape of spirit”?
- Chapter 8 Ethical life, morality, and the role of spirit in the Phenomenology of Spirit
- Chapter 9 Self-completing alienation: Hegel's argument for transparent conditions of free agency
- Chapter 10 Practical reason and spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit
- Chapter 11 Religion and demythologization in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
- Chapter 12 The “logic of experience” as “absolute knowledge” in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
- Bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on the contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations and citations
- Chapter 1 Substance, subject, system: the justification of science in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
- Chapter 2 “Science of the phenomenology of spirit”: Hegel's program and its implementation
- Chapter 3 The Phenomenology of Spirit as a “transcendentalistic” argument for a monistic ontology
- Chapter 4 Sense-certainty and the “this-such”
- Chapter 5 From desire to recognition: Hegel's account of human sociality
- Chapter 6 “Reason … apprehended irrationally”: Hegel's critique of Observing Reason
- Chapter 7 What is a “shape of spirit”?
- Chapter 8 Ethical life, morality, and the role of spirit in the Phenomenology of Spirit
- Chapter 9 Self-completing alienation: Hegel's argument for transparent conditions of free agency
- Chapter 10 Practical reason and spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit
- Chapter 11 Religion and demythologization in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
- Chapter 12 The “logic of experience” as “absolute knowledge” in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Phenomenology of Spirit has just turned two hundred years old. The first book that Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel published has lost none of the inspirational force that it had not only in Hegel's lifetime but, above all, in the decades after his death. The Russian émigré author Alexander Herzen, writing about the intellectual scene in France in the 1840s, reports the following:
Proudhon often went there to listen to Reichel's Beethoven and Bakunin's Hegel: the philosophical discussions lasted longer than the symphonies. They reminded me of the famous all-night vigils of Bakunin and Khomyakov at Chaadayev's and at Madame Yelagin's, where Hegel was also discussed. In 1847 Karl Vogt, who also lived in the Rue de Bourgogne, and often visited Reichel and Bakunin, was bored one evening with listening to the endless discussions of the Phenomenology, and went home to bed. Next morning he went round for Reichel, for they were to go to the Jardin des Plantes together; he was surprised to hear conversation in Bakunin's study at that early hour. He opened the door – Proudhon and Bakunin were sitting in the same places before the burnt-out embers in the fireplace, and were with a few last words just finishing the dispute that had begun the day before.
The power of the Phenomenology to stimulate new thought and provoke philosophical innovation continues unbroken today. It has enjoyed the widest and most intense reception of all Hegel's work.
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- Hegel's Phenomenology of SpiritA Critical Guide, pp. xi - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008