Table of Contents

1. Why the Phenomenology of Spirit?; 2. The claims to self-sufficient knowledge: sense-certainty, perception, understanding; 3. The claims of self-sufficient agency: freedom and self-consciousness; 4. Modern life's project of self-justification; 5. Modern life's alternatives and modern life's possibilities; 6. The self-reflection of the human community; 7. The essential structure of modern life.

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Terry Pinkard reconstructs Hegel's theoretical philosophy and shows its connection to ethical and political theory.

Reviews

'It is a remarkable reconstruction indeed. Among other things, it is a model of lucid and disciplined philosophical writing … He takes Hegel's seemingly disconnected discussions … and successfully weaves them together into a coherent argument.' Sally Sedgwick, Dartmouth College