The Phenomenology of Mind: Volume I

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Translators' Introduction -- THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER I. Sense-Certainty: The This and Meaning -- CHAPTER II. Perception: Things and Illusoriness -- CHAPTER III. Force and Understanding, Appearance and the Supersensuous World -- CHAPTER IV. Self-Certainty's Truth -- IV.A. Self-Consciousness Dependent and Independent: Mastery and Servitude -- IV.B. The Freedom of Self-Consciousness: Stoicism, Skepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness -- CHAPTER V. Reason: Its Certainty and Its Truth -- V.A. Observational Reason -- a. Observation of Nature -- b. Observation of Self-Consciousness in Its Purity and in Its Relation to External Reality: Logicaland Psychological Laws -- c. Observation of the Relation of Self-Consciousness to Its Immediate Matter-of-Fact Reality:Physiognomy and Phrenology -- V.B. The Self-Actualization of Rational Self-Consciousness -- a. Pleasure and Necessity -- b. The Law of the Heart and Arrogance Run Amok -- c. Virtue and the Way of the World -- V.C. Individuality That Deems Itself to Be Self-Containedly Real and Realistically Self-Oriented -- a. A Realm of Intelligent Animals and Deceit: The Abiding Concern -- b. Reason as Lawgiver -- c. Reason That Puts Laws to the Test -- CHAPTER VI. Spirit -- VI.A. Pristine Spirit: The Ethical Way of Life -- a. The Ethical World: Human and Divine Law, Man and Woman -- b. Ethical Action: Knowledge Human and Divine, Guilt and Destiny -- c. Legal Status -- VI.B. Self-Estranged Spirit: Culture -- 1. The World of Self-Estranged Spirit -- a. Culture and Its Realm of Actuality -- b. Faith and Pure Insight -- 2. Enlightenment -- a. Enlightenment's Struggle with Superstition -- b. The Truth of Enlightenment -- 3. Total Freedom and Terror.

"The Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is G.W.F. Hegel's remarkable philosophical text that examines the dynamics of human experience from its simplest beginnings in consciousness through its development into ever more complex and self-conscious forms. The work explores the inner discovery of reason and its progressive expansion into spirit, a world of intercommunicating and interacting minds reconceiving and re-creating themselves and their reality. The Phenomenology of Spirit is a notoriously challenging and arduous text that students and scholars have been studying ever since its publication. In this long-awaited translation, Peter Fuss and John Dobbins provide a succinct, highly informative, and readily comprehensible introduction to several key concepts in Hegel's thinking. This edition includes an extensive conceptual index, which offers easy reference to specific discussions in the text and elucidates the more subtle nuances of Hegel's concepts and word usage. This modern American English translation employs natural idioms that accurately convey what Hegel means. Throughout the book, the translators adhered to the maxim: if you want to understand Hegel, read him in the English. This book is intended for intellectuals with a vested interest in modern philosophy and history, as well as students of all levels, seeking to access or further engage with this seminal text"--

"The Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is G. W. F. Hegel's remarkable philosophical text that examines the dynamics of human experience from its simplest beginnings in consciousness through its development into ever more complex and self-conscious forms. The work explores the inner discovery of reason and its progressive expansion into spirit, a world of intercommunicating and interacting minds reconceiving and re-creating themselves and their reality. The Phenomenology of Spirit is a notoriously challenging and arduous text that students and scholars have been studying ever since its publication. In this long-awaited translation, Peter Fuss and John Dobbins provide a succinct, highly informative, and readily comprehensible introduction to several key concepts in Hegel's thinking. This edition includes an extensive conceptual index, which offers easy reference to specific discussions in the text and elucidates the more subtle nuances of Hegel's concepts and word usage. This modern American English translation employs natural idioms that accurately convey what Hegel means. Throughout the book, the translators adhered to the maxim: if you want to understand Hegel, read him in the English. This book is intended for intellectuals with a vested interest in modern philosophy and history, as well as students of all levels, seeking to access or further engage with this seminal text"--

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most influential texts in the history of modern philosophy. In it, Hegel proposed an arresting and novel picture of the relation of mind to world and of people to each other. Like Kant before him, Hegel offered up a systematic account of the nature of knowledge, the influence of society and history on claims to knowledge, and the social character of human agency itself. A bold new understanding of what, after Hegel, came to be called 'subjectivity' arose from this work, and it was instrumental in the formation of later philosophies, such as existentialism, Marxism, and American pragmatism, each of which reacted to Hegel's radical claims in different ways. This edition offers a new translation, an introduction, and glossaries to assist readers' understanding of this central text, and will be essential for scholars and students of Hegel