If one is going to tackle Hegel, this may be the way to do it. I enjoyed this companion guide as I was not interested in reading the difficult and dated text of Hegel. There are a few excellent analogies and quotations from other philosophers which do a trtemendously good job of explaining the phenomenology of spirit. I now have a decent grip on this much of Hegel's philosophy, why it is useful, and why it is outdated.

I enjoyed the introduction part of the book, even though i had difficulties translating into Greek.

Good intro to this book.

This book accomplished its goal: It made Hegel marginally comprehensible for the lay person, for people like me without a strong understanding of the history of Western philosophy.

I don’t enjoy Hegel, but if you have to read the Phenomenology of Spirit, this is a good way to get through it. This is a very helpful guide through a difficult book.

As I [Stern] hope to have shown, giving the Phenomenology an introductory role to the Logic conceived of as a dialectical investigation of categories shows it to be more than just a collection of observations on philosophical history, or on political and social theory, or on the problems of modernity: because I see no reason why the Logic interpreted this way should be ‘dead’ to us, I have not felt afraid to associate these two texts directly with one another.

...a historicist critique of any work has its own dangers: for, as has so often happened with Hegel, despite the repeated suggestion that his time has irrevocably passed (by Marxist materialists, by post-modernists, or by analytic philosophers, for example), he has repeatedly returned to speak to us once again, in ways that were previously unimagined. It seems likely, therefore, that as long as Hegel’s problems remain our problems, it is to the living present rather than the dead past that the Phenomenology will continue to belong.

Stern is a very helpful guide through Hegel's Phenomenology . He provides concise commentary, includes clear outlines of Hegel's text, and introduces readers to the main traditions of interpretation (e.g., Left Hegelians, French existentialists, the Frankfurt School, American pragmatists). For my first pass through the Phenomenology , I read the relevant chapter in Stern, read Hegel, and then read the corresponding chapter in Peter Kalkavage's The Logic of Desire (a longer yet still introductory work on Hegel's PoS ). Stern helped me to get my bearings before entering Hegel's labyrinth. I'm sure that I'll consult his book again (at least for the outlines) the next time I read the Phenomenology .

If you're reading this, just know that I could never have done it without you Robbie! Cheers mate.

بهتر از ترجمه‌‌‌های دیگه‌است

pretty dry stuff

ترجمه عالی بود. درک خوبی از فلسفه‌ی هگل در کتاب پدیدارشناسی روح به دست آوردم.