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Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has a long-standing reputation as one of the key books in the history of Western philosophy, but many are unsure just what it is about. Even the words in the title are disputed: What sense of “phenomenology” is being used? Is Geist to be rendered “spirit” or “mind”? What does this have to do with Hegel's original title, “The Science of the Experience of Consciousness”? To add to the perplexity, Hegel developed his own technical vocabulary in writing the book, but the jargon he created never caught on and thus there is no common usage for it. As a consequence, both the beginner and the Hegel specialist must make key decisions about to understand many basic terms in the book.
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Prelude
1st chapter: the “Preface”
2nd Chapter: the Introduction
3rd Chapter: Sensuous Certainty, Perceiving, Force & the Understanding
4th Chapter: Self-Consciousness and Self-Sufficiency: Mastery and Servitude
5th Chapter: Freedom: Stoicism, Skepticism, Unhappy Consciousness
6th Chapter: Reason: First Part
7th Chapter: Reason, Second Part
8th Chapter: Spirit
9th Chapter: Self-Alienated spirit
10th Chapter: Faith, The Enlightenment and the Truth of the Enlightenment
11th Chapter: Absolute Freedom and Terror
12th Chapter: Spirit Certain of Itself: Morality
13th Chapter: Beautiful Souls
14th Chapter: Religion
15th Chapter: Revealed Religion
16th Chapter: Absolute knowing
Addendum 1: Further reading
Addendum 2: Synopsis of the Chapters
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Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has a long-standing reputation as one of the key books in the history of Western philosophy, but many are unsure just what it is about. Even the words in the title are disputed: What sense of “phenomenology” is being used? Is Geist to be rendered “spirit” or “mind”? What does this have to do with Hegel's original title, “The Science of the Experience of Consciousness”? To add to the perplexity, Hegel developed his own technical vocabulary in writing the book, but the jargon he created never caught on and thus there is no common usage for it. As a consequence, both the beginner and the Hegel specialist must make key decisions about to understand many basic terms in the book.
This Oxford Guide walks the reader through this canonical text paragraph-by-paragraph using accessible and approachable language, such that both students and instructors—whether they come from philosophy, political theory, literature, or history backgrounds—will benefit.
