Sunday 21 February 2021

English translators' paragraph number differences in the Phenomenology of Spirit

Image courtesy of Philosophydata.com (2021).

Here is a summary of the paragraph numbering differences between Miller, Pinkard and Inwood's English translations of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807).

Summary

In short, from paragraphs 403-540, Miller and Inwood are one number ahead of Pinkard. 

In more detail, the situation is:
Chapters 1-4. – Miller and Pinkard are identical as far as I know
Chapter 5 – Reason. – Miller splits Hegel’s 402nd paragraph into two (at a dash). This is part way through “The animal kingdom of the Mind” sub-section of C. Individuality Real in and for Itself. So after that, Miller is one paragraph number ahead of Pinkard, until...
Chapter 6 – Spirit. – The gap closes up again at the end of the introductory section to II. The Enlightenment, where Pinkard again copies Hegel, but Miller runs two paragraphs together (Hegel's 540th paragraph being just one sentence). From para 541 the numbering is identical again.
Chapters 7 & 8. – In both Miller and Pinkard, these start at 672 and end with 808.

Inwood retains Miller's numbering throughout and so varies from Hegel & Pinkard's formatting, as above. 
Baillie is unnumbered and the recent Fuss/Dobbins translation reformats and renumbers the text entirely.

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