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Title: Phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegal, G.W.F. Hegel ISBN: 8-1208147-3-8 Publisher: South Asia Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $38.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Masterpiece
Comment: Many will agree with me in saying that this is the most difficult text in the canon to read. But the profundity of Hegel's insights and the sheer range of topics he treats in this book are astounding. Whether he is discussing the famous master/slave relationship, epistemology, natural science, law, or religion, Hegel's views are always provocative. As other reviewers have mentioned, this book can be examined historically both backwards to Hume and Kant, and forwards toward phenomenology. But for me, this text is so valuable because I find so much that stands on its own. Hegel need not be seen "in context" to be appreciated. Though now almost 200 years old, Hegel's thesis that he had completed the progress of philosophy by recognizing the necessary development of the universal self-consciousness is still relevant, and not entirely untenable despite its grandiose appearance. This is a book that, in the broad view, does come together as a whole, despite scholars' focus on some parts over others. Even if you don't agree with Hegel, his influence on philosophy was immense, and many of the ideas expanded upon in his other works are given a preliminary treatment here. This is probably not a good book for beginners; unfortunately, Hegel never gave us anything like a primer. But for those with a bit of experience and the sensitivity to understand the subtleties of Hegel's sometimes confusing vocabulary, this is an endlessly rewarding book, Western philosophy at its very finest.
Rating: 5
Summary: A very significant book
Comment: A very significant book
This book was a turning point for me in my personal quest. Up until this point each philosopher I learned about in class was torn apart by the next philosopher. Hegel approached things differently and made it possible for me to learn what "sublated" means. Those philosophers were not being "torn apart" by their successors. Instead, the history of thought can be seen as the logical interplay of ideas gradually creating better ideas. The previous ideas are incorporated in an ever more mature view. This is how we view history. This is why sociology seems to be the philosophy of our day - the sociality of reason.
But this book is deeply embedded in a historical context itself and makes sense only with a good guide. For an interesting way to do this look at Hans Kung's description of his experience of Hegel in his memoirs. For an excellent guide I recommend Pinkard or Kaufmann. My own thesis is on Hegel's Geist.
No philosopher since has ever torn apart another philosopher in my view even if they try to deconstruct them.
Rating: 5
Summary: Western Cognitive Enlightenment
Comment: Hegel's famous and difficult 45-page Preface to his Phenomenology of Spirit requires intensive study, but will reward the serious reader with nothing less than a cognitive enlightenment.
By loosening our grip on our rigid habit of self-conceptualizing and by releasing our self from our self-concepts, we begin to master our cognitive process and know ourself as this self-moving process. By this fluid detachment we gain the power to think, and without fear of being attached to our thoughts. We can, if we desire, more easily detach ourselves from being role-bound and tasked. We more easily live, and become, and recognize some of our fears as of our own making. And we are not so readily mediated by outside agencies, such as we have and are surrounded by in the 21st Century.
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Title: Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit (Agora Paperback Editions) by Alexandre Kojeve, Raymond Queneau, James H. Nicholas ISBN: 0801492033 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1980 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Philosophy of History by Georg W. Hegel ISBN: 0486201120 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1956 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Being and Time by Martin Heidegger ISBN: 0060638508 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 August, 1962 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer, Allen W. Wood ISBN: 0521657296 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Hegel's Science of Logic by A.V. Miller, Georg Wilhelm Friedri Hegel, Wilhelm Friedrich ISBN: 1573922803 Publisher: Humanity Books Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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