The Phenomenology of Spirit

The Phenomenology of Spirit
	Title page of the first edition
Author	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Original title	Phänomenologie des Geistes
Translator	James Black Baillie
Country	Germany
Language	German
Subject	Philosophy
Published	1807
Published in English	1910
Media type	Print
OCLC	929308074
Dewey Decimal	193
LC Class	B2928 .E5
Original text	Phänomenologie des Geistes at Project Gutenberg
Translation	The Phenomenology of Spirit at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Phenomenology of Spirit (German: Phänomenologie des Geistes) is the most widely-discussed philosophical work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; its German title can be translated as either The Phenomenology of Spirit or The Phenomenology of Mind. Hegel described the work, published in 1807, as an "exposition of the coming to be of knowledge".^[1] This is explicated through a necessary self-origination and dissolution of "the various shapes of spirit as stations on the way through which spirit becomes pure knowledge".^[1]

The book marked a significant development in German idealism after Immanuel Kant. Focusing on topics in metaphysics, epistemology, ontology, ethics, history, religion, perception, consciousness, existence, logic and political philosophy, it is where Hegel develops his concepts of dialectic (including the lord-bondsman dialectic), absolute idealism, ethical life and Aufhebung. It had a profound effect in Western philosophy, and "has been praised and blamed for the development of existentialism, communism, fascism, death of God theology and historicist nihilism".^[2]

^ ^a ^b Hegel 2018, p. 468, Appendix.
^ Pinkard 1996, p. 2.

[FOOTNOTEHegel2018468Appendix-1] Hegel 2018, p. 468, Appendix.

[FOOTNOTEPinkard1996[httpsbooksgooglecombooksido5nRTNak4HcCdq22hasbeenpraisedandblamedforthedevelopmentofexistentialismcommunismfascismdeathofGodtheologyandhistoricistnihilism22pgPA2_2]-2] Pinkard 1996, p. 2.

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