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HEGEL’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
GENERAL EDITOR
JAMES M. EDIE
CONSULTING EDITORS
David Carr
Edward S. Casey
Stanley Cavell
Roderick M. Chisholm
Hubert L. Dreyfus
William Earle
J. N. Findlay
Dagfinn Føllesdal
Marjorie Grene
Dieter Henrich
Don Ihde
Emmanuel Levinas
Alphonso Lingis
William L. McBride
J. N. Mohanty
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Paul Ricoeur
John Sallis
George Schrader
Calvin O. Schrag
Robert Sokolowski
Herbert Spiegelberg
Charles Taylor
Samuel J. Todes
Bruce W. Wilshire
CONSULTANTS FOR HEIDEGGER TRANSLATIONS
Albert Hofstadter
David Farrell Krell
John Sallis
Thomas Sheehan
Martin Heidegger
HEGEL’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT
Translated by
Parvis Emad andKenneth Maly
Indiana University Press
BLOOMINGTON & INDIANAPOLIS
Preparation of this book was aided by a grant from the Program for Translations of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency.
Published in German as Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes
© 1980 by Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am main
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976
Hegel’s Phenomenology of spirit.
(Studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy)
Translation of: Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes.
1. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770–1831. Phänomenologie des Geistes. 2. Spirit. 3. Consciousness. 4. Truth. I. Title. II. Series.
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ISBN 978-0-253-32766-6
ISBN 978-0-253-20910-8 (pbk.)
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Contents
IntroductionThe Task of the Phenomenology of Spirit as the First Part of the System of Science
§ 1. The system of the phenomenology and of the encyclopedia
§ 2. Hegel’s conception of a system of science
a) Philosophy as “the science”
b) Absolute and relative knowledge. Philosophy as the system of science
a) “Science of the Experience of Consciousness”
b) “Science of the Phenomenology of Spirit”
§ 4. The inner mission of the phenomenology of spirit as the first part of the system
a) Absolute knowledge coming to itself
b) Misinterpretations of the intention of the Phenomenology
c) Conditions for a critical debate with Hegel
§ 5. The presupposition of the Phenomenology: Its absolute beginning with the absolute