Hegel's Ladder

by H.S. Harris

A two-volume set. Print edition available in cloth only.

Awarded the Nicholas Hoare/Renaud-Bray Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize, 2001

From the Preface:

Hegel's Ladder aspires to be . . . a ‘literal commentary’ on Die Phänomenologie des Geistes. . . . It was the conscious goal of my thirty-year struggle with Hegel to write an explanatory commentary on this book; and with its completion I regard my own ‘working’ career as concluded. . . . The prevailing habit of commentators . . . is founded on the general consensus of opinion that whatever else it may be, Hegel’s Phenomenology is not the logical ‘Science’ that he believed it was. This is the received view that I want to overthrow. But if I am right, then an acceptably continuous chain of argument, paragraph by paragraph, ought to be discoverable in the text.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Theory

1567 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Zoë Geldhof · Rating 5 out of 5]

Most comprehensive and detailed commentary on Hegel's Phenomenology I have found thus far. The research that must have gone behind writing this work is impressive!

[S]

I will probably read this instead of the Phenomenology. And I will probably not read all of this. If any.

[Paul H. · Rating 4 out of 5]

So one of my undergrad professors knew Harris pretty well, I was very interested to learn that Harris sat down with Hegel's library (i.e. every book that Hegel had read) and read all of them to understand Hegel better . . . that's dedication lol.

[Geoff]

Damn this is really pricey

[Marc Porlier · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an extremely helpful, line-by-line commentary on the Phenomenology. Harris provides the intellectual context that makes this work so opaque to contemporary English readers.

[Sophia Kanaan · Rating 5 out of 5]

My personal favorite commentary to read alongside Hegel’S Phenomenology