Reddit reviews Phenomenology of Spirit

Sorry for an imperfect abbreviation of Hegel's dialectic. By squashing two books into about a single A4 page of text I have missed a lot of detail.

"No shit it's a mere particular of a universal concept." This is what Hegel is getting at. There does not exist a single example of an object that is identical to the concept used to denote it. "Human Being" as a concept is simultaneously a concept that refers to a particular and a universal. Hegel is drawing out the tension between the two and how this tension is immanent to the concept itself.

I'm not going to detail his argument here, but there are one or two really great texts that do just that.

You want Hegel.

I've only read The Phenomenology of Spirit and some of Hegel's theological writings, but I used the following commentaries. I also used the Miller translation, which has paragraph-by-paragraph summaries in the back; these aren't terribly helpful, but they're there.

Werner Marx, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirt: A Commentary Based on the Preface and Introduction.

Jean Hyppolite, Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

I haven't gotten the the impression that Hyppolite is popular in the Anglophone world. That perception may be way off, but I thought it was worth mentioning a bit more about him. His commentary also includes a quality essay on the history of Hegel's reception in France, particularly in the 20th century. The whole commentary is incredibly helpful, but that essay itself is a gem.

From Amazon's description:
>Jean Hyppolite produced the first French translation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. His major works--the translation, his commentary, and Logique et existence (1953)--coincided with an upsurge of interest in Hegel following World War II. Yet Hyppolite's influence was as much due to his role as a teacher as it was to his translation or commentary: Foucault and Deleuze were introduced to Hegel in Hyppolite's classes, and Derrida studied under him. More than fifty years after its original publication, Hyppolite's analysis of Hegel continues to offer fresh insights to the reader.

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Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel.

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