Hegel's Phenomenology The Sociality of Reason [Paperback]

Terry Pinkard reconstructs Hegel's theoretical philosophy and shows its connection to ethical and political theory.This analysis is the most detailed commentary on Hegel's work available and develops an independent philosophical account of the general theory of knowledge, culture, and history contained in it. It reconstructs Hegel's theoretical philosophy and its connection to the ethical and political theory.This analysis is the most detailed commentary on Hegel's work available and develops an independent philosophical account of the general theory of knowledge, culture, and history contained in it. It reconstructs Hegel's theoretical philosophy and its connection to the ethical and political theory.This book is the most detailed commentary on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit available and develops an independent philosophical account of the general theory of knowledge, culture, and history contained in it. Written in a clear and straightforward style, the book reconstructs Hegel's theoretical philosophy and shows its connection to the ethical and political theory. Terry Pinkard sets the work in a historical context and reveals the contemporary relevance of Hegel's thought to European and Anglo-American philosophers.1. Why the Phenomenology of Spirit?; 2. The claims to self-sufficient knowledge: sense-certainty, perception, understanding; 3. The claims of self-sufficient agency: freedom and self-consciousness; 4. Modern life's project of self-justification; 5. Modern life's alternatives and modern life's possibilities; 6. The self-reflection of the human community; 7. The essential structure of modern life. At first glance this weighty biography of one of the most demanding Writers in the Western tradition may seem unlikely recommendation for nonspecialists. But the experience of reading it will challenge this judgment, as it will much received wisdom about the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)....Mr. Pinkard has written engrossingly if al£J