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The Phenomenology of Spirit (or Mind) is perhaps Hegel's most important philosophical work. It formed the basis of his later philosophy and marked a significant development in German idealism after Kant. Focusing on topics in metaphysics, epistemology, physics, ethics, history, religion, perception, consciousness, and political philosophy, The Phenomenology is where Hegel develops his concepts of dialectic (including the Master-slave dialectic), absolute idealism and ethical life. The book had a profound effect on Western philosophy and has been praised and blamed for the development of existentialism, communism, fascism, death of God theology, and historicist nihilism. In this book, Hegel takes the reader through the evolution of consciousness. In the work, the mind experiences different stages of consciousness. It begins with the lower levels of consciousness and concludes with the higher levels of consciousness.

The Phenomenology of Spirit edition by Georg W F Hegel J B Baillie Politics Social Sciences eBooks

The Kindle version has no Preface, no Introduction, starts in the middle of the text and doesn't finish. It has no Index or Table of Contents. It is basically useless!

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  • File Size 1043 KB
  • Print Length 368 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage Unlimited
  • Publication Date September 20, 2011
  • Language English
  • ASIN B005OL08XO

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This is the first English translation of Hegel's classic text the Phenomenology of Mind (1807) that appeared just before the first world war. There's a later translation titled Phenomenology of Spirit by AV Millar, the German 'Geist' covering both English terms. Baillie's translation is more colloquial than Millar's and has helpful contextualising references to world literature, where Millar has a paraphrase by JN Findlay. Both are usable.

The Phenomenology was intended to be an introduction to a System of Science comprising a Logic of metaphysical ideas; followed by philosophies of Nature and Mind/Spirit. The system was eventually published as the Encyclopaedia (1817) with a new introduction in the early chapters of Hegel's Encyclopaedia Logic. This earlier introduction expounds the progress from everyday consciousness to the standpoint of philosophical 'science'. It does this in eight chapters, starting from 'consciousness' (1-3) through self-consciousness to reason, spirit, religion and a brief chapter on 'absolute knowledge'. The later chapters add more concrete ideas and content illuminated by glancing references to historical events and literature that locate the ideas being developed.

Hegel often begins chapters with a section bristling with impenetrable abstractions and it is only when the 'dialectic' (argument) starts that the chapter becomes easier to follow. The concluding transitions, being at times arbitrary, are again often obscure. The abstract parts jostle with wonderful lyrical metaphors. The famous Preface summarises Hegel's thought as a whole.

The Phenomenology is a heart and soul engagement with life, culture and even worship. I have read it several times and I would say in criticism only that there is a tendency to read the nature of God back from created minds that depends on the idea, derived partly I think from Jacob Boehme's mysticism and Spinoza, that God had to create the world. If the world is an act of divine love (rather than necessity), this is harder to maintain and even the best of life only hints at the nature of God. That said, there is a lot of secular truth here and a deep sense of the wholeness and significance of experience. Alexandre Kojève's Introduction to the Reading of Hegel Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit is a classic commentary though there are many more and there are free discussions on the hegel-yahoo email lists.
I love Glenn Sunshine's book Why You Think the Way You Do because it gives me bits of philosophers in a digestible context. I love Richard Tarnas' Passion for the Western Mind because he amps up the expectations for his readers (he assumes you know what Sunshine assumes you do not). But, the truth is there is nothing better to understand Hegel than reading Hegel. It's tough, but unbelievably coherent in the end. I don't exactly believe his theories, but, with the help of some resources (like above), they help me understand a different time and place dealing with the same mysterious, metaphysical struggles of our own time and place.
It was a great book and a very deep book that I going to be interesting an inspirational.
good book
Had to prepare a presentation using the introduction. Will be revisiting when we start in-depth study of Hegel. He is difficult and you cannot get it the first or second reading.
This was not the book I thought I was ordering. It consisted only of the last few sections of "The Phenomenology of Spirit." Some of the difficulties buying this product are related to the use in English of either the words "Mind" or "Spirit" to translate the German, "Geist." So that I inadvertently bought an incomplete work, which is labeled identically to the complete text, based on the vagaries of translation. The main point is that the summary was grossly inadequate for determining whether it was the correct text. I later ordered another "Phenomenology of Spirit" what was the correct one. The write-ups do not even indicate the number of pages, which borders on being a scam. Theoretically one could pay top dollar for a very short text. In the case of this work, knowing the number of pages, and including a basic table of contents would have prevented me from making the wrong purchase.
The version has no Preface, no Introduction, starts in the middle of the text and doesn't finish. It has no Index or Table of Contents. It is basically useless!
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