Beginning: Philosophy and the Problem of the Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. On Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit xi
5. Beginning: Philosophy and the Problem of the Preface xxiii
6. Our Time Is the Birth- Time of Spirit: Kant and the Bird on a Lime- Twig xxxv
7. PART I: EPOCHĒ
8. 1. Critique of Immediacy 1
9. 2. Self- Consciousness 34
10. 3. Happiness 70
11. PART II: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT
12. 4. Spirit, or Transubstantiated Life 113
13. PART III: ABSOLUTE KNOWING: THE BETRAYAL OF SUBSTANCE
14. 5. Leaving Literature Behind 183
15. Bibliography 201
16. Index 205