Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, the philosopher's first   and   perhaps greatest work, is the most important philosophical treatise of   the   nineteenth century. In this companion volume to his general introduction   to   Hegel, Tom Rockmore offers a passage-by-passage guide to the   Phenomenology for   first-time readers of the book and others who are not Hegel specialists.  Rockmore demonstrates that Hegel's concepts of spirit, consciousness,   and reason   can be treated as elements of a single, coherent theory of knowledge,   one that   remains strikingly relevant for the contemporary discussion. He shows   how the   various conceptions of cognition developed in the text culminate in   absolute   knowing, which Rockmore reads, in opposition to the frequent religious   readings   of Hegel, in a wholly secular manner. Unlike commentators who isolate   Hegel's   text from its philosophical origins, Rockmore analyzes the book in the   philosophical context from which it emerged, lucidly discussing   notoriously   difficult passages in relation to the ideas of Aristotle and Descartes,   and   above all to those of Kant and other German idealists.

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