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Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit': A Reader's Guide

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Hegel's

Phenomenology of Spirit is probably

his most famous work. First published in 1807, it has exercised considerable

influence on subsequent thinkers from Feuerbach and Marx to Heidegger, Kojève,

Adorno and Derrida. The book contains many memorable analyses of, for example,

the master / slave dialectic, the unhappy consciousness, Sophocles' Antigone and the French Revolution and

is one of the most important works in the Western philosophical tradition. It

is, however, a difficult and challenging book and needs to be studied together

with a clear and accessible secondary text. Stephen Houlgate's Reader's Guide

offers guidance on:

Philosophical

and historical context

Key

Themes

Reading

the text

Reception

and influence

Further

reading