Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books) by G. W. F. Hegel Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)
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Summary: 5 Stars
It is easy to dismiss a book because it is 'difficult'. Hegel's Phenomenology is indeed difficult. But how could it be otherwise? It is designed to invert a pattern of thought that has been in place for more than 2000 years. The best minds of our age--Marx, Heidegger, Kojeve--have wrestled with it. No one has yet pinned it down. That is a challenge worth facing, like Everest, because it is thereBook Review: Franky, I was unimpressed...
Summary: 1 Stars
They say Hegel was big. They say he was important. Personally, I find him impenetrable. A man who writes this poorly deserves not to be read, which is just about his present status: unread and therefore ignored, yet still, perversely, revered. I say Hegel should be held up as an example of poor writing, radical obscurantism, ugly proto-fascist (Royalist-Kaiserist) politics and neologistic fantasism (what the hell is a phenomenology anyway?