Phenomenology - Hegel's first complete attempt
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This book is a must, if you consider Hegel. The "condition of science" - the system as a whole - has to be reached in a special way, in Hegel's view. This book is a guide of this way: a hard work of natural consciousness in order to become scientific. What does this Science mean? Cannot be described in a simple way - that comes from the structure of Hegel's Logic. The system (as science) is the whole - and to reach it: is the target of Hegel's philosophical insight and our task is to become his companion throughout this journey.
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Hegel is amazing
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This work is a formidable intellectual enterprise. It has been misrepresented and written off by individuals who believe that it is incomprehensible. It has been misunderstood by governments and revolutionaries who are responsible for twisting Hegel's thought into Right or Left wing totalitarian structures. However, Hegel can be more fully appreciated today when read with psychoanalytical works by Lacan, Freud, and Zizek. What Hegel is after is to articulate the emergence of the subject through all of the interstices of reflection, negation, and double-negation from substance--in a manner that defies a linear, causal, concept of time and makes a clearing for the subject's actualization of desire.
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One of the most important books in western philosophy
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Hegel's Phenomenology is probably the most influential book in modern philosophy. The influence is very strong in the more contemporary thinkers such as Marx, Heidegger, Sartre, Lacan, Marcuse, Habermas, and more. The book has been very important in the schools of philosophy that deal with historisization and phenomenology. Hegel was not a poor writer; actually his writing (in German) was very eloquent and clear, taking full advantage of the rich, complex German language. Unfortunatly much of his writings have been poorly translated, but this is not a suprise. The topics which Hegel takes up in the Phenomenology are very complex and the whole book is based on the Hegelian dialectic, which has been misrepresented becuase of its complexity and that it has been accused as being a tract of Nazism and Stalism, wehich are absolutely false (look at Marcuse's Reason and Revolution). People who cannot understand the Phenomenology immediately accuse Hegel of being a poor writer, but that is a cop out becuse they think that whatever they can't understanding must be the result of bad writing. Those individuals who think that Hegel was a poor writer are simply poor thinkers.
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The best book that illustrate Hegelian Dialectic...
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The central theme of this book is about the spirit. According to Hegel, all the man has to struggle within themselves. In all of the human mind, there are two dialectically opposing spirit: the subjective spirit and objective spirit. In this book Hegel show us how we can overcome a struggle and come up with the absolute spirit.. So basically speaking, this book is the most authorative book on Hegelian Dialectic..
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One of the great books of Philosophy. Worth the effort.
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Hegel was the first writer to present a Science of Human Experience. His term for this is Phenomenology. His basic theory is that Human Experience evolves or develops from rudimentary states to higher states of consciousness. In an ascending Ladder, Hegel presents the following evolution of Consciousness (this is a very sketchy outline): 1. Sense-Certainty 2. Perceptual Consciousness 3. The Pure Understanding 4. Self-Consciousness - Desire - The Master/Slave Struggle - Stoic Consciousness - Skeptic Consciousness - Cynic Consciousness - Unhappy (Monk) Consciousness - Idealist Consciousness 5. Rational Consciousness (Reason) - Scientific Consciousness - Ethical Consciousness - Legal Consciousness 6. Spiritual Consciousness - Tragic Consciousness - Alienated Consciousness - Lacerated (Bohemian) Consciousness - Duty Consciousness - Freedom Consciousness - Forgiveness Consciousness 7. Religious Consciousness - Religion of Nature - Religion of Art - Religion of Revelation 8. Philosophy Consciousness - Dialectic Consciousness - Spirit Consciousness - Absolute Consciousness. Hegel richly deserved all the attention he got in the past 190 years from our best thinkers.
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