
The Essential Works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Phenomenology of Mind, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, The Criticism of Hegle's Work…By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelLength242h 55m
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The Essential Works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel gathers the decisive writings of one of modern philosophy's most demanding architects, presenting the movement of thought through logic, nature, spirit, history, art, religion, and the state. Its style is famously dense, dialectical, and systematic: concepts are not merely defined but made to unfold through contradiction, negation, and reconciliation. Read in the context of German Idealism after Kant, the volume reveals Hegel's ambition to comprehend modernity as a rational, historical process. Hegel (1770–1831), formed by classical learning, Protestant theology, the Enlightenment, and the upheavals of the French Revolution, wrote in an age that made philosophy answerable to history. His work reflects a lifelong effort to overcome divisions between subject and object, freedom and institution, faith and reason. As a teacher at Jena, Heidelberg, and Berlin, he transformed philosophy into an encyclopedic science of experience and self-consciousness. This collection is recommended to readers seeking the foundations of continental philosophy, political theory, aesthetics, theology, and historical thought. Though challenging, it rewards patience with a vision of reason as living, conflicted, and world-making.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
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GenrePhilosophy
Length242 hrs 55 mins
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Publish dateNov 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Essential Works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5Introduction
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6The Life and Work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
7Books
8The Phenomenology of Mind
9Preface: On Scientific Knowledge
10Introduction
11A. Consciousness
12II. Perception: Or Things and Their Deceptiveness
13III. Force and the Understanding-The World of Appearance and the Supersensible World
14B. Self-Consciousness
15A. Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness Lordship and Bondage
16B. Freedom of Self-Consciousness Stoicism: Scepticism: The Unhappy Consciousness
17C. Free Concrete Mind
18V. Reason’s Certainty and Reason’s Truth
19A. Observation as a Process of Reason
20a. Observation of Nature
21b. Observation of Self-Consciousness in its Pure Form and in its Relation to External Reality — Logical and Psychological Laws
22c. Observation of the Relation of Self-Consciousness To its Immediate Actuality — Physiognomy and Phrenology.
23B. The Realization of Rational Self-Consciousness Through its Own Activity
24a. Pleasure and Necessity
25b. The Law of the Heart, and the Frenzy Of Self-Conceit
26c. Virtue and the Course of the World
27C. Individuality, which Takes Itself to Be Real In and for Itself
28a. Society as a Herd of Individuals: Deceit: "Actual Fact"
29b. Reason as Lawgiver
30c. Reason as Testing Laws
31VI. Spirit
32A. Objective Spirit — The Ethical Order
33a. The Ethical World: Law Human and Divine: Man and Woman
34b. Ethical Action. Knowledge, Human and Divine. Guilt and Destiny
35c. The Condition of Right or Legal Status
36B. Spirit in Self-Estrangement — The Discipline Of Culture
37i. The World of Spirit in Self-Estrangement
38ii. Enlightenment
39iii. Absolute Freedom and Terror
40C. Spirit in the Condition of Being Certain of Itself: Morality
41a. The Moral View of the World
42b. Dissemblance
43c. Conscience: The “Beautiful Soul”: Evil and the Forgiveness of it
44VII. Religion
45A. Natural Religion
46a. God as Light
47b. Plants and Animals as Objects of Religion
48c. The Artificer
49B. Religion in the Form of Art
50a. The Abstract Work of Art