Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The Enlightenment and idealism
- 2 Absolute idealism and the rejection of Kantian dualism
- 3 Kant’s practical philosophy
- 4 The aesthetic holism of Hamann, Herder, and Schiller
- 5 All or nothing
- 6 The early philosophy of Fichte and Schelling
- 7 Hölderlin and Novalis
- 8 Hegel’s Phenomenology and Logic
- 9 Hegel’s practical philosophy
- 10 German realism
- 11 Politics and the New Mythology
- 12 German Idealism and the arts
- 13 The legacy of idealism in the philosophy of Feuerbach, Marx, and Kierkegaard
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - Hegel’s Phenomenology and Logic
an overview
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The Enlightenment and idealism
- 2 Absolute idealism and the rejection of Kantian dualism
- 3 Kant’s practical philosophy
- 4 The aesthetic holism of Hamann, Herder, and Schiller
- 5 All or nothing
- 6 The early philosophy of Fichte and Schelling
- 7 Hölderlin and Novalis
- 8 Hegel’s Phenomenology and Logic
- 9 Hegel’s practical philosophy
- 10 German realism
- 11 Politics and the New Mythology
- 12 German Idealism and the arts
- 13 The legacy of idealism in the philosophy of Feuerbach, Marx, and Kierkegaard
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The path to the Phenomenology
Hegel always described the 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit, his first major published book, as his “voyage of discovery.” In that work, he brought to completion in a highly original way a whole series of youthful reflections on various topics, and he came to terms with some issues that had long vexed him. However, he came to display a great ambivalence about the book, never lecturing on it while in Berlin and in 1825 even disavowing it as the proper “introduction” to his system of philosophy, but then later signing a contract in 1831 (the year he died) to publish a revised edition of it. He did not have the same qualms about his Logic (published originally between 1812 and 1816). Although he undertook some revisions of parts of the book later in his career, he always saw it more or less as the fundamental keystone of his system. Curiously, though, late in his career, his Logic became less and less popular with the students as their interest in his youthful Phenomenology began to grow. After his death, the Phenomenology rapidly eclipsed the Logic as the central Hegelian text.
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- The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism , pp. 161 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000
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