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Phenomenology of Spirit

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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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1807 1
Original Language
German 1
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosophers
Source Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (New World Encyclopedia)

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Metaphysics, Branches of Philosophy
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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1. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (New World Encyclopedia)
New World Encyclopedia
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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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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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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
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationIn Branch: MetaphysicsView the Source
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