| Description |
vii, 451 pages ; 23 cm |
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1. Why the Phenomenology of Spirit? 1. The problem of the Phenomenology. 2. Hegelian preliminaries. 3. Notes on the text -- 2. The claims to self-sufficient knowledge: sense-certainty, perception, understanding. 1. Sense-certainty. 2. Perception. 3. Force and the understanding: appearance and the supersensible world -- 3. The claims of self-sufficient agency: freedom and self-consciousness. 1. Self-consciousness and the desire for recognition. 2. Masters, slaves, and the subjective point of view. 3. Stoicism, skepticism, and the unhappy consciousness -- 4. Modern life's project of self-justification. 1. Reason, science, and modern affirmations. 2. Early modernity's social construction of individualism: Faustianism, sentimentalism, and natural virtue. 3. The rational individual -- 5. Modern life's alternatives and modern life's possibilities. 1. From Greek character to modern autonomy. 2. Freedom and modern life. 3. Rational autonomy: the moral worldview |
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4. Personal autonomy: Romanticism, authenticity, and beautiful souls -- 6. The self-reflection of the human community. 1. Religious practice as self-reflection. 2. Philosophy as communal self-reflection -- 7. The essential structure of modern life. 1. The post-phenomenological project. 2. Freedom and subjectivity in modern life. 3. Modern ethical life. 4. The final stage of political history, the teleology of modern life, and absolute spirit's coda |
| Analysis |
Philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-438) and index |
| Subject |
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. Phänomenologie des Geistes.
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. Phhanomenologie des Geistes
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History -- Philosophy.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Phenomenology.
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Philosophy -- History.
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Philosophy, German.
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Reasoning.
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| LC no. |
94000032 |
| ISBN |
0521453003 |
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