History & truth in Hegel's Phenomenology / Merold Westphal.

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1. The task of the phenomenology: the introduction. Critical philosophy as the fear of error and the fear of truth -- Phenomenology as the way of doubt and dispair -- ... as criticism without presuppositions. 2. The preface. The present standpoint of spirit -- The life-world of critical philosophy -- The medical function of philosophy: midwifery; socioanalysis. 3. The knowledge of nature: sens perception. "The truth is the whole" as hermeneutical guide -- The mediated character of sense perception -- Language, sense certainty, and Feuerbach's critique -- Language and the double mediation of theoretical consciousness -- Sense certainty and the phenomenology as a whole. 4. Natural science. Preliminary sketch of Hegel's phenomenological philosophy of science -- The supersensible character of scientific thought -- The tautological character of scientific explanation -- The transcendental source of science's supersensible tautologies.

5. The concept of spirit. The official introduction to spirit -- The priority of love over life and labor -- Spirit and ethical life. 6. The career of spirit. The legal self as the destiny of the ancient world -- The revolutionary self as the destiny of christendom -- The conscientious self as the destiny of the post-revolutionary world. 7. Religion. Spirit as the object and subject of religious knowledge -- Vorstellung as the form of religious knowledge. 8. Absolute knowledge. The withering away of religion and the Marxian critique -- Science and eternity -- The phenomenology and the system.

This concise introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit seeks to show that the unity of this classic work may be found in the integration of its transcendental and sociological-historical themes. -- Provided by publisher.

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