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This book, collected from Heidegger’s 1930-31 lecture series on Hegel, is a profoundly difficult but rewarding explanation of the Phenomenology, as well as a more stable grounding on which we can interpret the existential analytic laid out in Being & Time (1927).
Reading this was not only a detailed and interesting inquiry into the nature of spirit within western ontology, but also, as Heidegger puts it, the history of onto-theo-ego-logy. The idea of a restless splitting and recombining of the particular and the universal, consciousness and self-consciousness, authenticity and inauthenticity, and of course the flame (as Derrida notes) is an existential that cannot but fill up my head.
Hegel in 150 pages is difficult to manage given the other reference works i’ve seen, as well as the Phenomenology itself, but it is dense as all hell. My copy is rife with annotations, and I truly see myself returning to this work for an understanding of german idealism, and Heidegger’s earlier works.
Reading this was not only a detailed and interesting inquiry into the nature of spirit within western ontology, but also, as Heidegger puts it, the history of onto-theo-ego-logy. The idea of a restless splitting and recombining of the particular and the universal, consciousness and self-consciousness, authenticity and inauthenticity, and of course the flame (as Derrida notes) is an existential that cannot but fill up my head.
Hegel in 150 pages is difficult to manage given the other reference works i’ve seen, as well as the Phenomenology itself, but it is dense as all hell. My copy is rife with annotations, and I truly see myself returning to this work for an understanding of german idealism, and Heidegger’s earlier works.