Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit': An Introduction

by Larry Krasnoff

Book Overview

This book introduces Hegel's best-known and most influential work, Phenomenology of Spirit, by interpreting it as a unified argument for a single philosophical claim: that human beings achieve their freedom through retrospective self-understanding. In clear, non-technical prose, Larry Krasnoff sets this claim in the context of the history of modern philosophy and shows how it is developed in the major sections of Hegel's text. The result is an accessible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521695376
• ISBN13: 9780521695374
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"