Transition problems in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
WHAT IS A PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT?
Beginning around the summer of 1802, Hegel began to prepare his friends and students for the immanent publication of his own “system” or at least a part of it. For a young professor out to make his mark, this was apparently the thing to do in those heady days in the university city of Jena, which had already seen several of Fichte's “Doctrines of Knowledge” and Schelling's influential “System of Transcendental Idealism.” But no such work appeared, since Hegel began to change his mind rapidly about a number of important elements in such a system, especially, after the lectures given in the 1803-4 academic year, about the relation between his category theory, or logic, and his metaphysics, and even more deeply, about many of Schelling's ideas. These changes also prompted an interest, sometime around 1805, in a proper “Introduction” to such a system, a work that was to be a “Science of the Experience of Consciousness,” and that would be published, together with his “Logic,” in a single volume at Eastertime 1806.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.