Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: An Analysis of Consciousness and Its Role in Understanding Reality

floraliafloralia: I’m very happy with this purchase, as the book arrived in perfect condition. This edition includes enumerated sections (§) in the principal text for citations, as is to be expected of Oxford Press. I was initially apprehensive because I was unsure if the translation would hold up, but there’s not much problem cross-referencing with the original German and the latest translations.

United States on Mar 05, 2024

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United States on Mar 01, 2024

Danuel Yahushua Israel: A true masterpiece...

United Kingdom on Jan 29, 2024

JoelJoel: Front cover curls up, and has a thin plastic glossy coat that is coming off. DO NOT BUY THIS!!!

Spain on May 09, 2023

Alejandra: Me falta tiempo para entender el libro en su totalidad pero muy bueno, lo leí por mera curiosidad y resulta que terminé siendo un fan de las cosas que no entiendo

Mexico on Sep 19, 2021

Jon Waters: In the summer of 1806, as Napoleon Bonaparte was crushing the Prussians at the Battle of Jena, nearby at the University of Jena, Georg Hegel was finishing one of the greatest philosophical meditations in the Western canon, his Phenomenology of Spirit (Geistes)(1807). In the grand tradition of Augustine, Descartes, Hume, and Kant, Hegel sought to ground all knowledge in the certainty of careful introspection into the contents of consciousness and the Absolute Spirit that he discovered as a result. For some 50 years, his Phenomenology and later works dominated Western philosophical thought. Then Darwin published his Origin of Species, and for a half century Hegel’s dominance vanished. If there are no hard borders to the various species, then there are no essences attached to them. If species evolve through the crucible of natural selection, then humans have evolved, and human minds have evolved also. So human concepts about our world don’t reflect timeless, immutable essences. And phenomenological analysis of our consciousness of these concepts and mental contents can’t reveal the timeless essence of human consciousness.

However, as the 1800’s came to a close,...

United States on Dec 20, 2020

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India on Aug 14, 2018

Simeon4110: Are you sick of the feeling that you're beginning to grasp the nature of reality? If your answer is "yes," then this book is for you!

Have you found yourself thinking: "the world makes sense, I totally get it now."

Well, my dear sweet summer child, you get nothing. Yes, nothing. My man Hegel here is going to shatter all the things you hold as true and good into tiny little shards of your broken dreams.

"What's this master-slave dialectic? I've read so much about?" you ask.

Again, I don't mean to shatter your already delicate disposition, but the 'master-slave dialectic' is your life--in case I'm not being clear, you're the slave, Donny Lord-Emperor Cheeto is one of the lords. Remember Marx? Yeah, Marx was Hegel's boy. Freud? Yeah, that's Hegel too. <Insert a Literary Theorist or Philosopher's Name Here> is drawing his/her/xer/they inspiration directly from the work of Hegel.

"Wow, that's incredible," you say. "I'm going to read this book right now!"

So... here's the problem. Hegel is freaking hard, like FREAKING hard. I'd start with Kojeve's "Introduction to the Reading of Hegel." And, before you ask, yes, there is a book about...

Canada on May 04, 2017

Joseph Martin: Will Phenomenology and Logic ever agree?

Hegel has many a story to tell in this most amazing book. The most important, at least for our era, is the story of a final and complete reconciliation between all members of the human family. How could that, given the almost countless differences between myriad human groups, ever be achieved? Hegel achieves it by arguing (and dialectically showing) that everything partial, ambiguous and irrational in history is burned away in the process of that history until ...what? Until all that remains is all that could possibly (Hegel means theoretically and practically, logically and existentially) remain. There are, as you might guess, several non-trivial difficulties with a position as profound as this.

To begin, until the promised 'utopian' end-state finally and completely arrives different people interpret this end state differently. This is why Hegel reminds us that philosophy can only equal Science (of Wisdom) at the end of this phenomenal and historical process. Until then, and this is important, each and every understanding of Hegel necessarily remains mired in partiality, ambiguity and irrationality. (- This is also true, I...

United States on Nov 20, 2004