The Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Peter Kalkavage’s The Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit guides the reader through Hegel’s great work. Given the book’s legendary difficulty, one may well ask, “Why even try to read the Phenomenology?” In his preface, Kalkavage explains why he thinks a reader should try.\ There is much to commend the study of Hegel: his attentiveness to the deepest, most fundamental questions of philosophy, his uncompromising pursuit of truth, his amazing gift for...
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The best introduction for the general reader to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.
Prologue: The Ladder and the Labyrinth xiPreparing the JourneyA World of Knowing 1What Is Experience? (Hegel's Introduction) 11ConsciousnessOf Mere Being (Sense-Certainty) 29The Crisis of Thinghood (Perception) 40The Dynamics of Self-Expression (Understanding) 55Principles of Motion and the Motion of Principles (Understanding, Continued) 70Self-ConsciousnessOn Life and Desire 91The Violent Self: In Quest of Recognition 109Freedom as Thinking 126Infinite Yearning and the Rift in Man 137ReasonIdealism 157Adventures of a Rational Observer 166The Romance of Reason 186Rational Animals and the Birth of Spirit 207SpiritEthical Life: Laws in Conflict 235Interlude 260Culture as Alienation 268From Pure Insight to Pure Terror: The Darkness of the Enlightenment 292Pure Willing and the Moral World-View 315Conscience and Reconciliation: Hegel's Divine Comedy 334ReligionThe Depiction of God 361The Greek Phase 374Christianity, the Figureof Science 396Absolute KnowingSpeculative Good Friday: The Top of Hegel's Ladder 423Epilogue 452A Brief Bibliography 459Notes 463Index 523
