The Oxford Handbook of Hegel

One commentator once suggested that Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit were the ultimate unavoidable peak challenges of the philosopher. Whatever else they managed to do in a lifetime of thinking, reflection, study and discussion, these were the two texts they should try to understand. The extensive and ever-growing Hegel (1770-1831) historiography reveals how persistent the sentiment is about this most complex, elusive and profound writer. The questions he asks, and how he goes about answering them, are central to our understanding of understanding, knowledge and reason.

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