The Phenomenology of Spirit Reader: Critical and Interpretive Essays

by Stewart, Jon

• ISBN13: 9780791435366
• ISBN10: 0791435369
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

The Phenomenology of Spirit was Hegel's first major philosophical work and is considered by many to be his masterpiece. Its several hundred pages treat topics as diverse as Greek drama, religion, medieval court culture, natural science, Romanticism, and the Enlightenment. Hegel regarded it as the introduction to his philosophical system as a whole, and it is often thought to be the most accessible work in his otherwise difficult philosophical corpus. This anthology represents the most complete collection of essays on the Phenomenology in any language, it follows Hegel's table of contents, and all of the major sections of the work are covered. The main goal guiding the selection of essays was to collect the best articles written on the Phenomenology by the most distinguished international Hegel scholars and at the same time to provide systematic coverage. Although the essays are all by leading Hegel scholars, none of them presupposes any particular in-depth knowledge of Hegel or German philosophy. The object of the book is thus to make the Phenomenology more accessible for students while serving as an impetus for further Anglo-American Hegel research.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Abbreviations of Primary Texts	xiii
Introduction	1	(24)
Part I. Hegel'S Preface and Introduction
Hegel's Concept of Presentation: Its Determination in the Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit	25	(27)
John Sallis
Hegel's Phenomenological Method	52	(24)
Kenley R. Dove
Hegel's Solution to the Dilemma of the Criterion	76	(29)
Kenneth R. Westphal
Part II. Consciousness
Can Hegel Refer to Particulars?	105	(17)
Katharina Dulckeit
Hegel's Phenomenology of Perception	122	(16)
Merold Westphal
Hegel's ``Inverted World''	138	(17)
Joseph C. Flay
Part III. Self-Consciousness
Of Human Bondage: Labor, Bondage, and Freedom in the Phenomenology	155	(17)
Howard Adelman
Notes on Hegel's ``Lordship and Bondage''	172	(20)
George Armstrong Kelly
``Unhappy Consciousness'' in Hegel: An Analysis of Medieval Catholicism?	192	(21)
John W. Burbidge
Part IV. Reason
Hegel on Faces and Skulls	213	(12)
Alasdair Macintyre
Notes on the Animal Kingdom of the Spirit	225	(18)
Gary Shapiro
Part V. Spirit
Hegel's Antigone	243	(29)
Patricia Jagentowicz Mills
Hegel's Intertextual Dialectic: Diderot's Le Neveu de Rameau in the Phenomenology of Spirit	272	(10)
David W. Price
The French Revolution and Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit	282	(25)
Karlheinz Nusser
Moral and Literary Ideals in Hegel's Critique of ``The Moral World-View''	307	(27)
Moltke S. Gram
``The Appearing God'' in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit	334	(17)
Daniel P. Jamros, S.J.
Part VI. Religion
Natural Religion: An Investigation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit	351	(24)
Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron
The Othering (Becoming Other) and Reconciliation of God in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit	375	(26)
Harald Schondore, S.J.
Mediation and Negativity in Hegel's Phenomenology of Christian Consciousness	401	(26)
Martin J. De Nys
Part VII. Absolute Knowing and the Structure of the Phenomenology
The Attainment of the Absolute Standpoint in Hegel's Phenomenology	427	(17)
Mitchell H. Miller Jr.
The Architectonic of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit	444	(35)
Jon Stewart
Bibliography: Works on the Phenomenology	479	(26)
Index	505