Hegel's Introduction to the System: Encyclopaedia Phenomenology and Psychology - Paperback

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Author), Robert E. Wood (Translator)

As an introduction to his own notoriously complex and challenging philosophy, Hegel recommended the sections on phenomenology and psychology from The Philosophy of Spirit, the third part of his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophic Sciences. These offered the best introduction to his philosophic system, whose main parts are Logic, Nature, and Sprit.

Hegel's Introduction to the System finally makes it possible for the modern reader to approach the philosopher's work as he himself suggested. The book includes a fresh translation of "Phenomenology" and "Psychology," an extensive section-by-section commentary, and a sketch of the system to which this work is an introduction. The book provides a lucid and elegant analysis that will be of use to both new and seasoned readers of Hegel.

Author Biography

G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) is considered one of the most important philosophers of German idealism as well as a powerful influence on subsequent thinkers.
Robert E. Wood is a professor in the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas.