The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's

Copyright © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's

Editor(s): Kenneth R. Westphal

Published Online: 2 MAR 2009

Print ISBN: 9781405131094

Online ISBN: 9781444306224

DOI: 10.1002/9781444306224

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Providing a groundbreaking collective commentary, by an international group of leading philosophical scholars, Blackwell's Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit transforms and expands our understanding and appreciation of one of the most challenging works in Western philosophy.


  • Collective philosophical commentary on the whole of Hegel's Phenomenology in sequence with the original text.

  • Original essays by leading international philosophers and Hegel experts.

  • Provides a comprehensive Bibliography of further sources.

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xxvii)

    2. Chapter 1

      Hegel's Phenomenological Method and Analysis of Consciousness (pages 1–36)

      Kenneth R. Westphal

    3. Chapter 2

      Desire, Recognition, and the Relation between Bondsman and Lord (pages 37–54)

      Frederick Neuhouser

    4. Chapter 3

      Freedom and Thought: Stoicism, Skepticism, and Unhappy Consciousness (pages 55–71)

      Franco Chiereghin

    5. Chapter 4

      The Challenge of Reason: From Certainty to Truth (pages 72–91)

      Cinzia Ferrini

    6. Chapter 5

      Reason Observing Nature (pages 92–135)

      Cinzia Ferrini

    7. Chapter 6

      Shapes of Active Reason: The Law of the Heart, Retrieved Virtue, and What Really Matters (pages 136–152)

      Terry Pinkard

    8. Chapter 7

      The Ethics of Freedom: Hegel on Reason as Law-Giving and Law-Testing (pages 153–171)

      David Couzens Hoy

    9. Chapter 8

      Hegel, Antigone, and Feminist Critique: The Spirit of Ancient Greece (pages 172–189)

      Jocelyn B. Hoy

    10. Chapter 9

      Hegel's Critique of the Enlightenment in “The Struggle of the Enlightenment with Superstition” (pages 190–208)

      Jürgen Stolzenberg

    11. Chapter 10

      “Morality” in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (pages 209–225)

      Frederick C. Beiser

    12. Chapter 11

      Religion, History, and Spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (pages 226–245)

      George di Giovanni

    13. Chapter 12

      Absolute Knowing (pages 246–264)

      Allegra de Laurentiis

    14. Chapter 13

      Spirit and Concrete Subjectivity in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (pages 265–295)

      Marina F. Bykova

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      General Bibliography (pages 296–298)

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      Index of Names (pages 299–303)

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      Subject Index (pages 304–323)

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      Table of Concordances (pages 324–325)

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