Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures
By (author) Richard Dien Winfield
Publication date:
27 June 2013Length of book:
417 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781442223370
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: 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 Spirit: 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.
Winfield's book is a fresh look at an important text whose meaning is far from exhausted. . . .Winfield, in respect of the literature, gives a freer interpretation that seeks to reposition itself within the landscape of perpetually changing research on Hegel.