Hegel''s Phenomenology of Spirit - A Guide

Pinkard here provides a much-needed guide to Hegel's notoriously difficult text Phenomenology of Spirit. He walks a reader unfamiliar with Hegel's style through this canonical text paragraph-by-paragraph using accessible and approachable language. The Guide is intended for both students and instructors unfamiliar with the text.

List of contents

• Prelude


• 1st chapter: the "Preface"


• 2nd Chapter: the Introduction


• 3rd Chapter: Sensuous Certainty, Perceiving, Force and 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

About the author

Terry Pinkard is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He has also taught philosophy at Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, Tübingen University, and Fudan University. His recent books include Power, Practice, and Forms of Life: Sartre's Appropriation of Hegel and Marx (2021), and a new translation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit (2018)

Summary

Pinkard here provides a much-needed guide to Hegel's notoriously difficult text Phenomenology of Spirit. He walks a reader unfamiliar with Hegel's style through this canonical text paragraph-by-paragraph using accessible and approachable language. The Guide is intended for both students and instructors unfamiliar with the text.

Additional text

The objective of the work remains relatively modest: it is not a question of seeking to exhaust the meaning(s) of Hegel's work, an impossible task that condemns one to the bad infinity, but rather to propose a path of interpretation, a voice "to facilitate the conversation and not to close it"

Product details

• Authors: Pinkard , Terry Pinkard, Terry (Professor of Philosophy Pinkard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2023
• EAN: 9780197663127
• ISBN: 978-0-19-766312-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: OXFORD GUIDES TO PHILOSOPHY SERIES
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Philosophy of Language, History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought