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Donald Phillip Verene has advanced a completely new reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. He shows that the philosophic meaning of this work depends as much on Hegel's use of metaphor and image as it does on Hegel's dialectical and discursive descriptions of various stages of consciousness. The focus is on Hegel's concept of recollection (Erinnerung). Consciousness confronts itself with the aim of achieving absolute knowing.
This is the first commentary to regard metaphor, irony, and memory as keys to the understanding of Hegel's basic philosophical position.
Preface
Citations in Text
1 Introduction: Hegel's Imagination
2 The Method of In-itself
3 Das Meinen, "Meaning"
4 The Topsy-turvy World
5 Masterhood and Servitude
6 The Unhappy Consciousness
7 Phrenology
8 Two Forms of Defective Selfhood: The Spiritual Animal Kingdom and the Beautiful Soul
9 Religion versus Absolute Knowing
10 Epilogue
Appendix: Hegel's Titles and Contents
Notes
Index