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Reputed to be one of the most difficult yet rewarding works of philosophical literature, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has long been in need of an introduction for English readers. Without using jargon or technical terms, Donald Phillip Verene provides that introduction, guiding the reader through Hegel's text as a whole and offering a way to grasp the major insights and sections of Hegel's text without oversimplifying its narrative. A glossary of sixty of Hegel's terms, discussed in both their original German and English equivalents, is included.

Preface

1. Hegel’s Preface: Reflection versus Speculation

2. Hegel’s “Introduction”: The Double Ansich

3. Hegel’s Reason: A Digression

4. Hegel’s System: Dialectic of “Andness”

5. The Beginning of the Phenomenology

6. Force, Understanding, and the Inverted World

7. Self-Consciousness of Masterhood and Servitude

8. Unhappy Consciousness

9. On Reading the Second “Half” of the Phenomenology: An Overview of Reason and Spirit

10. Absolute Knowing

Appendix. Hegel’s Terminology
Works Cited
Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780791480724

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

H E G E L ’ S A B S O L U T E

SUNY series in Hegelian Studies William Desmond, editor

H E G E L ’ S A B S O L U T E

An Introduction to Reading the Phenomenology of Spirit

Donald Phillip Verene

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Verene, Donald Phillip, 1937– Hegel's absolute : an introduction to reading The phenomenology of spirit / Donald Phillip Verene. p. cm. — (SUNY series in Hegelian studies) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN13: 9780791469637 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN13: 9780791469644 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770–1831. Phänomenologie des Geistes. 2. Spirit. 3. Consciousness. 4. Truth. 5. Phenomenology. I. Title. II. Series.

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A quite special, though purely negative science, general phenomenology (phaenomenologia generalis), seems to be presupposed by metaphysics.

—Kant to Lambert, September 2, 1770

Hegel had the stuff of one of the greatest humorists among philosophers; Socrates is the only other one who had a similar method.

—Bertolt Brecht,Flüchtlingsgespräche, 1941

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Preface

Contents

1. Hegel’s Preface: Reflection versus Speculation

2. Hegel’s “Introduction”: The DoubleAnsich

3. Hegel’s Reason: A Digression

4. Hegel’s System: Dialectic of “Andness”

5. The Beginning of thePhenomenology

6. Force, Understanding, and the Inverted World

7. SelfConsciousness of Masterhood and Servitude

8. Unhappy Consciousness

9. On Reading the Second “Half” of the Phenomenology: An Overview of Reason and Spirit

10. Absolute Knowing

Appendix. Hegel’s Terminology

Works Cited

Index

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Preface

Hegel’s texts make unusual demands on the reader. This is espe cially true of thePhenomenology of Spirit, commonly regarded as the most difficult text in the history of philosophy. What Hegel intends cannot be presented as a summary of the results of his investigations. The course of spirit’s development in all its forms is recreated as a whole in Hegel’s exposition, and this full path must be traveled by the reader. Hegel says: “Thelengthof this path has to be endured, because, for one thing, each moment is necessary; and further, each moment has to belin geredover, because each is itself a complete individual shape, and one is only viewed in absolute perspective when its deter minateness is regarded as a concrete whole, or the whole is regarded as uniquely qualified by that determination” (par. 29). Spirit “has had the patience to pass through these shapes over the long passage of time, and to take upon itself the enor mous labour of worldhistory” (ibid.). Hegel has had the patience to bring these shapes together in his book and the reader must have the patience to comprehend them page by page. It is not sufficient for the reader to study the text from an external point of view. One must make its science for oneself. Hegel says: “What, therefore, is important in thestudyof sci ence, is that one should take on oneself the strenuous effort of the notion [Begriff]” (par. 58). The reader must strive not sim ply to pass from one shape of spirit to the next but to aim to know each one, to think through each one, in the manner of theBegriffand grasp the process as a whole. This requires the reader to acquire the mentality of speculative philosophy. The greatest stumbling block to comprehending Hegel’s work and studying his science is propensity to argumentation (raisonnement). Hegel says: “Such reasoning adopts a negative

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