Reading Hegel

Reading Hegel: The Introductions
G.W.F. Hegel (Edited and introduced by Aakash Singh and Rimina Mohapatra)

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ISBN-13: 978-0-9805440-1-5 (paper)

Description
Bringing together for the first time all of G.W.F. Hegel¹s major
Introductions in one place, this book ambitiously attempts to present
readers with Hegel¹s systematic thought through his Introductions alone. The
Editors articulate to what extent, precisely, Hegel¹s Introductions truly
reflect his philosophic thought as a whole. Certainly each of Hegel¹s
Introductions can stand alone, capturing a facet of his overarching idea of
truth. But compiled all together, they serve to lay out the intricate
tapestry of Hegel¹s thought, woven with a dialectic that progresses from one
book to another, one philosophical moment to another.

Hegel¹s reflections on philosophy, religion, aesthetics, history, and
law‹all included here‹have profoundly influenced many subsequent thinkers,
from post-Hegelian idealists or materialists like Karl Marx, to the
existentialism of Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre; from the
phenomenological tradition of Edmund Husserl to Martin Heidegger, Jacques
Derrida and other post-moderns, to thinkers farther afield, like Japan¹s
famous Kyoto School or India¹s Aurobindo. This book provides the opportunity
to discern how the ideas of these later thinkers may have originally
germinated in Hegel¹s writings, as well as to penetrate Hegel¹s worldview in
his own words, his grand architecture of the journey of the Spirit.

Contents
Editors¹ Introduction: The Circle of Knowledge
Chapter 1: Phenomenology of Spirit
Chapter 2: Science of Logic
Chapter 3: Philosophy of Right
Chapter 4: Philosophy of History
Chapter 5: Philosophy of Fine Art
Chapter 6: Philosophy of Religion
Chapter 7: History of Philosophy
Editors¹ Epilogue: The End of Introductions
Further Readings
Index