Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures

by Richard Dien Winfield

Hegel’s Phenomenology of A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures provides a clear and philosophically engaging investigation of Hegel’s first masterpiece, perhaps the most revolutionary work of modern philosophy. The book guides the reader on an intellectual adventure that takes up Hegel’s revolutionary strategy of paving the way for doing philosophy without presuppositions by first engaging in a phenomenological investigation of knowing as it appears. That preliminary investigation observes how the prevailing view of knowing that condemns cognition to operating with presuppositions proves unable to justify its own knowledge claims and ends up undermining the distinction between knowing and its object on which that view depends. Unlike other studies of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, the work rethinks the entire argument with sustained attention to the project that gives the work its revolutionary significance. Free of unnecessary jargon and always focusing on clearly unraveling the argument in its entirety, Hegel’s Phenomenology of A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures, will be indispensable to undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy, Hegel scholars, and anyone interested in tackling the radical project of doing philosophy without foundations.

Genres: Philosophy

417 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Richard Dien Winfield (PhD Yale) is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia, where he has taught since 1982. Winfield has served as president of the Society for Systematic Philosophy, the Hegel Society of America, and the Metaphysical Society of America.

Reviews

[BerndBummser · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really liked it. Winfield guided me through the Phenomenology alongside Hyppolite, and his sober, American lucidity played well off of the eccentricities of the French side of things.