The Berlin Phenomenology: Edited and Translated with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes (Hardcover)

Since the three volume edition ofHegel s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit (1978 19792) has been so well received I have been encouraged to select that part of it most suitable for teaching purposes and to publish it here as a separate work. As a teaching text the Berlin Phenomenology has several important advan- tages. Unlike so many ofHegel s writings must notably theJena Phenomeno- logy of 1807 it is concise and to the point and concemed with issues already familiar to most students of philosophy. Since it consists for the most part of a searching and radical analysis of Kant s epistemology Fichte s ethics and Schelling s system-building it provides tirst-rate insight into Hegel s assessment of his immedi te predecessors. When considered in context as part of the Encyclopaedia if the Philosophical Sciences it enables us to distinguish dearly between the systematic the logical and the psychological aspects of Hegelianism and is therefore also relevant to some of the central issues in modem phenomenology. It is to be hoped that the introduction and notes prepared for the present edition will prove helpful to both teachers and students. Every effort has been ma de to produce a thoroughly reliable ba sic text and an accurate translation. The text published in 1978 was prepared at the Hegel Archive in Bochum from photocopies and I am most grateful to the Central Interfaculty of the Erasmus University Rotterdam for having made it possible for me to check the printed version against the original manuscripts.