Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's first mature philosophical work, tracing consciousness through a sequence of shapes, from sense-certainty through self-consciousness, reason and spirit, each collapsing under its own internal contradictions into the next, toward what Hegel calls absolute knowing. Hegel finished the manuscript in Jena in October 1806 while Napoleon's army occupied the city.
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1. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, section 3.1.1 Phenomenology of SpiritQuote, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, section 3.1.1 Phenomenology of Spirit
its structure has been compared to that of a Bildungsroman charting the psychological development of a protagonist, here abstractly conceived as the bearer of an evolving series of so-called shapes of consciousness
2. Wikipedia: The Phenomenology of Spirit
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It was a foundational text for the Young Hegelians, including Karl Marx, and became a cornerstone of 20th-century continental philosophy, particularly through the influential interpretations of Alexandre Kojeve and Jean Hyppolite in France, which shaped the development of existentialism, critical theory, and post-structuralism.
3. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (New World Encyclopedia)
New World EncyclopediaHegel's System, Phenomenology of Spirit subsection
In his best known and first important work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel leads the reader through a sort of propaedeutic or prolegomena.
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