Jean Wahl and Hegel-scholarship in the Age of Existentialism (Part Two)

The first edition of Wahl's book on Hegel (1929).

This post completes our discussion of French philosopher Jean Wahl's Le Malheur de la conscience dans la philosophie de Hegel [The Misfortune of Consciousness in Hegel's Philosophy] (1929). We outline the reception of the idea of "unhappy consciousness" which is central to Wahl's interpretation of Hegel and then evaluate his understanding of the idea.

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in Scots - 1

 

This is an experiment in translating sections of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) into broad Scots. We start with the sub-section on the Law of the Heart from Chapter 5 - Reason. Vocabulary and reading suggestions - particularly for the Stage, spatial movement and mental dispositions - welcome. The video includes photographs from my trip in 2017 to the parts of Switzerland (Tschugg, Erlach and Berne) where Hegel lived as a tutor from 1793-96. The script follows:

Review of David Charlston's Translation and Hegel's Philosophy

Here is our review of David Charlston's recent book, Translation and Hegel's Philosophy (Abingdon, NY: Routledge, 2020).

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).

Hegel on Observation and Self-observation (From Phenomenology of Spirit)

Title page of first edition of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807).

This post is a commented abstract of the first third of the reason chapter of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), which deals with logic, psychology and other sciences of human self-observation.

"Religion expresses what spirit is earlier in time than science." (Part Two)

Church carving of Christ's crucifixion, in Stuttgart Landesmuseum

This and the previous post are a reading of the section of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) on Christianity. In this post, I deal with the final section on the doctrine of the church.

"Religion expresses what spirit is earlier in time than science." (Part One)

Church carving of Christ's crucifixion, in Stuttgart Landesmuseum

This and the following post are a reading of the section of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) on Christianity. The title quote is from Phenomenology (para 802), translating "Wissenschaft" as science.

Rudolf Haym on the Phenomenology of Spirit

Title page of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)

This post summarizes the main chapter on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in Rudolf Haym's classic book Hegel and his Time (1857).

Rudolf Haym on the Preface to the Phenomenology

Title page of Rudolf Haym's Hegel und seine Zeit (1857).

Rudolf Haym was a central figure in the reception of Hegelian ideas and the dissolution of the Hegelian school in Germany. The chapters of his book, Hegel and his Time (1857), on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) are of particular interest in their own right. This post summarizes Haym's analysis of the Phenomenology Preface.

Brief notes on the Science of Logic

 

These are my notes from the brief chapter on Hegel's Science of Logic in Karl Rosenkranz' Life of Hegel (1844). This gave rise to an interesting exchange of views on the Hegel-list on the nature of the Logic, which we concluded was a logic of experience-as-a-whole rather than a pure development of abstract concepts (as my version of Rosenkranz suggested) or a deceptive removal of layers of abstraction to return to a common sense view of the world (as alleged by Friedrich Trendelenberg and Andrew Seth later in the 19th century).

Hegel in Jena (Part Two)

This post covers the remainder of Hegel's time in Jena, drawn from chapters 7-14 of Hegels Leben (1844) by Karl Rosenkranz, down to publication of the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) and the fleeting encounter with Napoleon.

New translation of the Phenomenology of Spirit

Here is a link to a recent radio interview with Jean Pierre Lefebvre, whose revised French translation of the Phenomenology of Spirit (Flammarion, 2012) - the second of four into that language - has just been published: