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Title: Phenomenology of Spirit by A.V. Miller, Georg Wilhelm Friedri Hegel, A. V. Miller, J. N. Findlay ISBN: 0-19-824597-1 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 1979 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Masterpiece
Comment: Many will agree with me in saying that this is the most difficult text in the canon to read. But the profundity of Hegel's insights and the sheer range of topics he treats in this book are astounding. Whether he is discussing the famous master/slave relationship, epistemology, natural science, law, or religion, Hegel's views are always provocative. As other reviewers have mentioned, this book can be examined historically both backwards to Hume and Kant, and forwards toward phenomenology. But for me, this text is so valuable because I find so much that stands on its own. Hegel need not be seen "in context" to be appreciated. Though now almost 200 years old, Hegel's thesis that he had completed the progress of philosophy by recognizing the necessary development of the universal self-consciousness is still relevant, and not entirely untenable despite its grandiose appearance. This is a book that, in the broad view, does come together as a whole, despite scholars' focus on some parts over others. Even if you don't agree with Hegel, his influence on philosophy was immense, and many of the ideas expanded upon in his other works are given a preliminary treatment here. This is probably not a good book for beginners; unfortunately, Hegel never gave us anything like a primer. But for those with a bit of experience and the sensitivity to understand the subtleties of Hegel's sometimes confusing vocabulary, this is an endlessly rewarding book, Western philosophy at its very finest.
Rating: 5
Summary: Transformative Text in the History of Philosophy
Comment: It doesn't make any sense to rate this work at anything less than 5 stars, since it's one of the most influential works of the last 200 years. It was written in 1806, and it is Hegel's attempt to demonstrate the systematic way in which human experience develops, from its simplest roots in sensory life to its highest fulfilment in scientific, political and religious experience. This was a work that took Kant's revolutionary insights and produced a new philosophy of the human person that prefigured the developments of Marx, Freud, existentialism, deconstruction and so on. Human experience is here understood in a rigorously anti-reductive way: Hegel will not allow meaningful dimensions of human experience to be ignored in the way that they typically are in too-facile theories of experience (like sense-data empiricism, physicalist reductionism, possessive individualism, etc.). Experience is also understood dynamically: because of its own internal reason, experience develops into progressively more complex forms. It is a masterful work, and it takes years of serious study to master this book. It is a very difficult book to work with, because it is written in a very daunting manner, which means it is not realistic to imagine reading it outside of a university course in which someone can lead you into the reading of Hegel's phenomenology. This translation by Miller is also imperfect. This translation was meant as an improvement to the older Baillie translation but, while this one is marginally more "literal," it does not do as good a job as Baillie at communicating the sense of what's being said. If you can only have one translation, this is probably the better choice, but if you are studying the book seriously, I highly recommend hunting down a copy of Baillie's translation as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Western Cognitive Enlightenment
Comment: Hegel's famous and difficult 45-page Preface to his Phenomenology of Spirit requires intensive study, but will reward the serious reader with nothing less than a cognitive enlightenment.
By loosening our grip on our rigid habit of self-conceptualizing and by releasing our self from our self-concepts, we begin to master our cognitive process and know ourself as this self-moving process. By this fluid detachment we gain the power to think, and without fear of being attached to our thoughts. We can, if we desire, more easily detach ourselves from being role-bound and tasked. We more easily live, and become, and recognize some of our fears as of our own making. And we are not so readily mediated by outside agencies, such as we have and are surrounded by in the 21st Century.
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Title: Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit (Agora Paperback Editions) by Alexandre Kojeve, Raymond Queneau, James H. Nicholas ISBN: 0801492033 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1980 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Philosophy of History by Georg W. Hegel ISBN: 0486201120 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1956 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer, Allen W. Wood ISBN: 0521657296 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Hegel's Science of Logic by A.V. Miller, Georg Wilhelm Friedri Hegel, Wilhelm Friedrich ISBN: 1573922803 Publisher: Humanity Books Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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Title: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx, Ben Fowkes, J. M. Cohen ISBN: 0140445684 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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