In this major new study, philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers an innovative reading of a book that forms part of the bedrock of modern Western thought: Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.\ Whereas other writers have interpreted the Phenomenology as a rigidly closed system, Jameson discovers it to be a more fluid, open-ended work. Hegel’s mind is revealed to be a less systematic mechanism than normally thought, one whose ideas never solidify into pure abstractions. The...
The master philosopher and cultural theorist tackles the founder of modern dialectics.
\ London Review of BooksFredric Jameson preserved and extended the legacy of Marxism for a generation of intellectuals.”— Benjamin Kunkel\ \