Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Martin Heidegger

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       HEGEL’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT

      Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

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      JAMES M. EDIE

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       Martin Heidegger

       HEGEL’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT

       Translated by

       Parvis Emad andKenneth Maly

      Indiana University Press

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      Preparation of this book was aided by a grant from the Program for Translations of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency.

      Published in German as Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes

      © 1980 by Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am main

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976

      Hegel’s Phenomenology of spirit.

      (Studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy)

      Translation of: Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes.

      1. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770–1831. Phänomenologie des Geistes. 2. Spirit. 3. Consciousness. 4. Truth. I. Title. II. Series.

      B2929.H3513 1988 193 87-45440

      ISBN 978-0-253-32766-6

      ISBN 978-0-253-20910-8 (pbk.)

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       Contents

       TRANSLATORS’ FOREWORD

       IntroductionThe Task of the Phenomenology of Spirit as the First Part of the System of Science

       § 1. The system of the phenomenology and of the encyclopedia

       § 2. Hegel’s conception of a system of science

       a) Philosophy as “the science”

       b) Absolute and relative knowledge. Philosophy as the system of science

       § 3. The significance of the first part of the system with regard to the designation of both of its titles

       a) “Science of the Experience of Consciousness”

       b) “Science of the Phenomenology of Spirit”

       § 4. The inner mission of the phenomenology of spirit as the first part of the system

       a) Absolute knowledge coming to itself

       b) Misinterpretations of the intention of the Phenomenology

       c) Conditions for a critical debate with Hegel

       Preliminary Consideration

       § 5. The presupposition of the Phenomenology: Its absolute beginning with the absolute

       a) The stages of spirit’s coming-to-itself

       b) Philosophy as the unfolding of its presupposition. The question concerning finitude and the problematic of infinitude in Hegel

       c) Brief preliminary remarks on the literature, on the terminology of the words being and beings, and on the inner comportment in reading