Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

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Jean Hyppolite produced the first French translation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. His major works--the translation, his commentary, and Logique et existence (1953)--coincided with an upsurge of interest in Hegel following World War II. Yet Hyppolite's influence was as much due to his role as a teacher as it was to his translation or commentary: Foucault and Deleuze were introduced to Hegel in Hyppolite's classes, and Derrida studied under him. More than fifty years after its original publication, Hyppolite's analysis of Hegel continues to offer fresh insights to the reader. Cover Contents Translator's Preface List of Hegel's Works Cited Introduction PART I: Generalities on the Phenomenology 1 / Meaning and Method of the Phenomenology I. The Problem of Knowledge: Idea of a Phenomenology II. The Formation of Natural Consciousness, Its Development, and the End Point of this Development a. The development and its necessity b. The end point of the development III. The Technique of Phenomenological Development 2 / History and Phenomenology I. The Spirit is History II. The Phenomenology is not the History of the World III. The Phenomenology: A History of Individual Consciousness IV. Individual Consciousness and Universal History 3 / The Structure of the Phenomenology I. The History of the Birth of the Phenomenology II. The Phenomenology in the Later Works a. In the Propaedeutic b. The Phenomenology in the Encyclopaedia III. The Organization of the Phenomenology in 1807 PART II: Consciousness, or the Phenomenological Genesis of the Concept Introduction 1 / Sensuous Certainty I. Sensuous Certainty: General Considerations II. With Respect to the Object: Parmenides' Thinking and Opinion III. With Regard to the Subject IV. The Third Experience: The Concrete Unity of Sensuous Certainty 2 / Perception General Characteristics of Perception I. The Perceptive Attitude, the Concept of the Thing II. The Experience of Consciousness 3 / Understanding General Development of this Chapter I. Force II. The Concept of Force and the Reality of Force III. The Interior, or the Bottom of Things IV. Explanation: The Analytic Necessity of Law V. The Two Worlds and their Dialectical Unity PART III: The Transition from Natural Self-Consciousness to Universal Self-Consciousness Introduction / The Movement of Consciousness to Self-Consciousness I. Self-Consciousness as the Truth of Consciousness II. Self-Consciousness as Practical Consciousness III. Life and Self-Consciousness a. The absolute concept b. General philosophy of life 1 / Self-Consciousness and Life: The Independence of Self-Consciousness Introduction: The Movement of Self-Consciousness Positing Self-Consciousness as Desire: Deduction of Desire The Meaning of Desire Desire and Life Otherness in Desire The Concept of Recognition The Struggle for Recognition: The Fight for Life and Death Domination and Servitude Servile Consciousness 2 / The Liberty of Self-Consciousness: Stoicism and Skepticism Stoicism Stoicism and Thought The Liberty of Stoicism Skepticism The Meaning of Skepticism in History 3 / Unhappy Consciousness Historical Introduction The Transition to Unhappy Consciousness Changeable Consciousness The Figure of the Immutable Unity of Actual Reality and Self-Consciousness PART IV: Reason in Its Phenomenological Aspect 1 / Reason and Idealism The Dialectic: Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, Reason Idealism as a Phenomenon of Spirit Critique of Empty (Subjective) Idealism 2 / The Observation of Nature Theoretical Reason; Natural Philosophy From the Observation of Things to the Observation of the Organic Observation of the Organic Exterior and Interior Reason in Nature 3 / The Observation of Human Individuality The Sciences of Man Physiognomy and Phrenology 4 / Active Reason and Modern Individualism The Transition from Observing Reason to Active Reason Three Forms of Individualism a. Pleasure and necessity b. The law of the heart and the ravings of presumption c. Virtue and the way of the world 5 / Human Works and the Dialectic of Action I. The Work as Truth of Individuality II. The Thing Itself III. The Interplay of Individualities; Transition to the Universal Self IV. Legislative Reason and the Reason that Assays Laws PART V: Spirit: From Spiritual Substance to the Self-Knowledge of Spirit Introduction 1 / Immediate Spirit Immediate Spirit; the Emergence of the Self Tragic Action: the Self as Action 2 / The First Form of Spiritual Self 3 / The World of Culture and Alienation General Introduction I. The Actual World: Culture a. The moments of substance in themselves b. The moments for self-consciousness: Judgment c. The forward motion of the moments in themselves: The mediating syllogism Transition from the feudal regime to monarchy: Alienation of noble consciousness Language as the actuality of estrangement, or culture: the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV The language of flattery The language of laceration II. Faith and Pure Intellection 4 / The Struggle between Enlightenment and Superstition The Enlightenment Spreads The Opposition between Intellection and Faith Identity of Materialism and Idealism The World of Utility 5 / Absolute Freedom and the Terror: The Second Type of Spiritual Self Absolute Freedom and the Terror Transition to Self-Certain Spirit; Objective Spirit and Subjective Spirit PART VI: From the Self-Knowledge of Spirit to Absolute Spirit 1 / The Moral World View Exposition of the Problem First Postulate Second Postulate The Antinomies of the Moral World View: Displacement 2 / Self-Certain Spirit: Self or Freedom (Third Type of Spiritual Self) Introduction: General Significance of the Chapter of Gewissen I. Gewissen: Acting Individuality Recognition of conviction Indeterminateness of conviction II. The Universality of Conviction The beautiful soul III. Evil and Its Forgiveness a. The terms of the opposition b. Finite spirit: consciousness of sin c. Universal consciousness d. Signification of this dialectic 3 / Religion: Mysticism or Humanism? Historical Introduction Religion in the Phenomenology Difference between consciousness and self-consciousness of spirit Difference and unity of the two dialectics General dialectic of religion Phenomenology or noumenology I. Natural Religion The abstract work of art The living work of art The spiritual work of art III. Revealed (or Manifest) Religion Speculative knowledge of the community PART VII: Conclusion Phenomenology and Logic: Absolute Knowledge I. Characteristics of the Phenomenology II. The Logic or Speculative Philosophy III. Difference between the Phenomenology and the Logic; their Mutual Correspondence IV. Demonstration of the Identity of Self and Being V. The Element of Existence of Science: Universal Self-Consciousness VI. Return from Speculative Philosophy to Phenomenology, Nature, and History Glossary