Providing a groundbreaking collective commentary, by an international group of leading philosophical scholars, Blackwell's Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit transforms and expands our understanding and appreciation of one of the most challenging works in Western philosophy. - Collective philosophical commentary on the whole of Hegel's Phenomenology in sequence with the original text. - Original essays by leading international philosophers and Hegel experts.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• References
• Introduction
• 1. Hegel's Phenomenological Method and Analysis of Consciousness - Kenneth R. Westphal
• 2. Desire, Recognition, and the Relation between Bondsman and Lord - Frederick Neuhouser
• 3. Freedom and Thought: Stoicism, Skepticism, and Unhappy Consciousness - Franco Chiereghin
• 4. The Challenge of Reason: From Certainty to Truth - Cinzia Ferrini
• 5. Reason Observing Nature - Cinzia Ferrini
• 6. Shapes of Active Reason: The Law of the Heart, Retrieved Virtue, and What Really Matters - Terry Pinkard
• 7. The Ethics of Freedom: Hegel on Reason as Law-Giving and Law-Testing - David Couzens Hoy
• 8. Hegel, Antigone, and Feminist Critique: The Spirit of Ancient Greece - Jocelyn B. Hoy
• 9. Hegel's Critique of the Enlightenment in “The Struggle of the Enlightenment with Superstition” - Jürgen Stolzenberg
• 10. “Morality” in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit - Frederick C. Beiser
• 11. Religion, History, and Spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit - George di Giovanni
• 12. Absolute Knowing - Allegra de Laurentiis
• 13. Spirit and Concrete Subjectivity in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit - Marina F. Bykova
• General Bibliography