The Phenomenology of Spirit (World Philosophers and Their Works)
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- Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- First Published: 1807
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, Religion, God, Spiritual life or spirituality, Life, philosophy of, Consciousness, Germany or German people, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Psychiatry or psychiatrists, Reason or reasoning
Context
While Napoleon was defeating the Prussians outside the walls of Jena, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was completing his The Phenomenology of Spirit. Napoleon’s victory signified for Hegel the triumph throughout Europe of enlightened self-rule and marked the beginning of a new social era; and in the preface to The Phenomenology of Spirit, he drew a parallel between Napoleon’s achievement and his own. “It is not difficult to see that our epoch is a birth-time and a period of transition,” he wrote. “The spirit of man has broken with the old order of...
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