Hegel A Re-Examination

First published in 2002. Written in 1958, this book offers a re-examination of Hegel's work, and is the volume I of a series of seven volumes on his work. Starting with a biography and the key ideas, the author offers his own explanations of ideas that are central in Hegel: being the notion of spirit, the dialectical method, the phenomenology of spirit, the doctrines of being, essence and notion; the philosophy of nature, absolute knowledge and subjective/objective spirit.

Chapter 1 Introductory and Biographical; Chapter 2 The Notion of Spirit; Chapter 3 The Dialectical Method; Chapter 4 The Phenomenology of Spirit—I; Chapter 5 The Phenomenology of Spirit—II; Chapter 6 The Logic—I; Chapter 7 The Logic—II; Chapter 8 The Logic—III; Chapter 9 The Philosophy of Nature; Chapter 10 The Philosophy of Subjective Spirit ( Hegel’s Psychology ); Chapter 11 The Philosophy of Objective Spirit ( Hegel’s Theory of Law, Morals, the State and History ); Chapter 12 Absolute Spirit and Retrospect ( Hegel’s Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion and History of Philosophy );

J N Findlay Professor of Philosophy in the University of London (King’s College) .