Reddit reviews Hegel (The Routledge Philosophers)

Alain Badiou recently wrote this article on Hegel's master/slave dialectic, but did so asking the question as to it's relation to real slavery. It answers the question quite nicely while also providing an extremely clear reading of Hegel's argument.

Frederick Beiser also wrote a book on Hegel (there are ways to get the PDF version of this if you look in the right places) that is clear and does a good job dispelling the common misreadings of Hegel.

Peter Singer's Very Short Introduction to Hegel (again, available as a PDF in the right places) is also extremely clear and well written.

If you're serious about reading Hegel, pick yourself up a copy of Phenomenology of Spirit and read through it with Gregory Sadler's Lecture series. He goes through paragraph by paragraph explaining the whole text. He's extremely engaging and extremely insightful.

If you can't get enough Hegel and you want to go all in, I'd recommend The Hegel Variations by Fredric Jameson, Hegel: Three Studies by Theodore Adorno, and Less Than Nothing by some Slovenian guy.

Sorry if that's overkill, hope it helps!

Lately, I'm suggesting Frederick Beiser's Hegel to people who ask me for introductions to Hegel. In this little introduction Beiser manages to give a much better overview of Hegel's philosophy, in its proper context. He knows very well classical German philosophy (he has some good books about it also) and writes very clearly. It's much much better than Peter Singer.

But I've copied a part of his commentary on dialects here, take a look: http://pastebin.com/bUi8CTNp