The Phenomenology of Spirit is both one of Hegel's most widely read books and one of his most obscure. The book is the most detailed commentary on Hegel's work available. It develops an independent philosophical account of the general theory of knowledge, culture, and history presented in the Phenomenology. In a clear and straightforward style, Terry Pinkard reconstructs Hegel'...(展开全部)

According to the line of thought that inspires this book, we as readers and philosophers are not compelled to choose between Hegel and Husserl. Our task is rather that of unearthing the philosophical relevance of those problems that both Hegel and Husserl taught us to rethink in a radical way. Starting with a historical appraisal of the Hegelian heritage in the phenomenological...(展开全部)

According to the line of thought that inspires this book, we as readers and philosophers are not compelled to choose between Hegel and Husserl. Our task is rather that of unearthing the philosophical relevance of those problems that both Hegel and Husserl taught us to rethink in a radical way. Starting with a historical appraisal of the Hegelian heritage in the phenomenological...(展开全部)

It is commonly believed that Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), well known as the founder of phenomenology and as the teacher of Heidegger, was unable to free himself from the framework of a classical metaphysics of subjectivity. Supposedly, he never abandoned the view that the world and the Other are constituted by a pure transcendental subject, and his thinking in consequence remain...(展开全部)

It is commonly believed that Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), well known as the founder of phenomenology and as the teacher of Heidegger, was unable to free himself from the framework of a classical metaphysics of subjectivity. Supposedly, he never abandoned the view that the world and the Other are constituted by a pure transcendental subject, and his thinking in consequence remain...(展开全部)

This is the most important book on Hegel to have appeared in the past ten years. Robert Pippin offers a completely new interpretation of Hegel's idealism, which focuses on Hegel's appropriation and development of kant's theoretical project. Hegel is presented neither as a precritical metaphysician nor as a social theorist, but as a critical philosopher whose disagreements with ...(展开全部)

Kant said that logic had not had to take a single step forward since Aristotle, but German Idealists in the following generation made concerted efforts to re-think the logical foundations of philosophy. In this book, Jacob McNulty offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Logic, the key work of his philosophical system. McNulty shows that Hegel is responding to a perennial problem...(展开全部)

In this major new study, philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers an innovative reading of a book that forms part of the bedrock of modern Western thought: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Whereas other writers have interpreted the Phenomenology as a rigidly closed system, Jameson discovers it to be a more fluid, open-ended work. Hegel's mind is revealed to be a...(展开全部)

In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel's foundational text "The Phenomenology of Spirit". In contrast to those who see The Phenomenology as a closed system ending with Absolute Spirit, Jameson's reading presents an open work in which Hegel has not yet reconstituted himself in terms of a systematic philosophy ...(展开全部)

In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel's foundational text "The Phenomenology of Spirit". In contrast to those who see The Phenomenology as a closed system ending with Absolute Spirit, Jameson's reading presents an open work in which Hegel has not yet reconstituted himself in terms of a systematic philosophy ...(展开全部)