This is a new translation, with running commentary, of what is perhaps the most important short piece of Hegels writing. The Preface to Hegels first major work, the Phenomenology of Spirit , lays the groundwork for all his other writing by explaining what...
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), his first major work, is one of the classics of Western philosophy. Although previous translations, in whole or in part, have made the text available in English, they are for various reasons not fully adequate,...
Christianity had compromised the immediacy of man's relationship with reality, and ironic detachment had alienated him from his deepest feelings. Hegel's