Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit': A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guides) - Softcover

Houlgate, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826485111 ISBN 13: 9780826485113

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Synopsis

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is probably his most famous work. First published in 1807, it has exercised considerable influence on subsequent thinkers from Feuerbach and Marx to Heidegger, Kojčve, Adorno and Derrida. The book contains many memorable analyses of, for example, the master / slave dialectic, the unhappy consciousness, Sophocles' Antigone and the French Revolution and is one of the most important works in the Western philosophical tradition. It is, however, a difficult and challenging book and needs to be studied together with a clear and accessible secondary text. Stephen Houlgate's Reader's Guide offers guidance on:

Philosophical and historical context
Key themes
Reading the text
Reception and influence
Further reading

About this title

Book Description:

First published in 1801, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has exercised considerable influence on subsequent thinkers, from Marx and Kierkegaard to Heidegger, Kojčve, Adorno and Derrida.

About the Author:

Stephen Houlgate is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of An Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy. Freedom, Truth and History, 2nd Ed (2005) and The Opening of Hegel's Logic (2006), the editor of The Hegel Reader (1998) and Hegel and the Arts (2007), and co-editor (with Michael Baur) of A Companion to Hegel (2011).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0826485111
• ISBN 13: 9780826485113
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224