The logic of desire : an introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit / Peter Kalkavage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalkavage, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. Phänomenologie des Geistes.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Spirit.

Consciousness.

Truth.

Physical Description:

xvi, 537 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Paul Dry books edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2007.

Summary:

Peter Kalkavage's The Logic of Desire guides the reader through Hegel's great work. Given the book's legendary difficulty, one may well ask, "Why even try to read the Phenomenology?" In his Prologue, Kalkavage explains why he thinks a reader should try: There is much to commend the study of Hegel: his attentiveness to the deepest, most fundamental questions of philosophy, his uncompromising pursuit of truth, his amazing gift for characterization and critique, his appreciation for the grand sweep of things and the large view, his profound admiration for all that is heroic, especially for the ancient Greeks, those heroes of thought in whom the philosophic spirit first dawned, his penetrating gaze into modernity in all its forms, his enormous breadth of interests, and his audacious claim to have captured absolute knowing in a thoroughly rational account.

Contents:

Preparing the journey

Consciousness

Self-consciousness

Reason

Spirit

Religion

Absolute knowing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-462) and index.

ISBN:

9781589880375

1589880374

OCLC:

154704983