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Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Kindle Edition | Pages: 223 pages

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Title	:	Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit
Author	:	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 223 pages
Published	:	January 17th 2005 by Princeton University Press (first published 1807)
Categories	:	Philosophy. History. Theory. Nonfiction

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This is a new translation, with running commentary, of what is perhaps the most important short piece of Hegel's writing. The Preface to Hegel's first major work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, lays the groundwork for all his other writing by explaining what is most innovative about Hegel's philosophy.

This new translation combines readability with maximum precision, breaking Hegel's long sentences and simplifying their often complex structure. At the same time, it is more faithful to the original than any previous translation.

The heart of the book is the detailed commentary, supported by an introductory essay. Together they offer a lucid and elegant explanation of the text and elucidate difficult issues in Hegel, making his claims and intentions intelligible to the beginner while offering interesting and original insights to the scholar and advanced student. The commentary often goes beyond the particular phrase in the text to provide systematic context and explain related topics in Hegel and his predecessors (including Kant, Spinoza, and Aristotle, as well as Fichte, Schelling, Holderlin, and others).

The commentator refrains from playing down (as many interpreters do today) those aspects of Hegel's thought that are less acceptable in our time, and abstains from mixing his own philosophical preferences with his reading of Hegel's text. His approach is faithful to the historical Hegel while reconstructing Hegel's ideas within their own context.

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Original Title:	Einleitung in die Phänomenologie des Geistes
ISBN:	0691120528 (ISBN13: 9780691120522)
Edition Language:	English URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegel

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An Outstanding Introduction To HegelHegel (1770 -- 1831) is probably the most difficult and the most controversial of the great philosophers. Much of modern analytic philosophy, beginning with Russell and Moore, had its origin in an uncompromising rejection of Hegel (in the persons of his British idealist followers) and his obscurantism. Continental philosophers, such as Heidegger, are heavily indebted to Hegel even while philosophizing against him. I have had difficulty in prior attempts to



There is no quick and short path to reading Hegel. Yovel's adroit exegesis will not only remind the impatient reader of this, but provide the broader scope of Hegel's project and intellectual engagement that the reader can explore more in depth in order to read him with greater depth and confidence. The translation attempts to make Hegel's sentences more terse and meticulously annotates difficult concepts and subtle references. It is an ideal read for a newcomer trying to work their way through

An absolutely fascinating work with a very helpful running commentary by Yovel. I have caught the Hegel bug. I will hence be reading much more Hegel from this day forward. He is a figure too important to be skipped over, as well as too interesting to neglect. Since Hegel was critical of thinkers who wanted to skip to the end and condense philosophical truth into a quick and easy summary, I won't begin to dive into the spacious system of Hegel's dialectic in a short review. You will have to read

Incredibly dense (as Hegel is bound to be) but Yovel's commentary is extremely helpful.

3 stars for Yovel's commentary, which is clear and especially well-suited to helping beginners understand Hegel, but not brilliant. 4 stars for his translation.

Fantastic translation and remarkably helpful annotations, commentary, and introduction.