Hegel’s Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason by Terry Pinkard (PDF)

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The Phenomenology of Spirit is both one of Hegel’s most widely read books and one of his most obscure. The book is the most detailed commentary on Hegel’s work available. It develops an independent philosophical account of the general theory of knowledge, culture, and history presented in the Phenomenology. In a clear and straightforward style, Terry Pinkard reconstructs Hegel’s theoretical philosophy and shows its connection to ethical and political theory. He sets the work in a historical context and shows the contemporary relevance of Hegel’s thought for European and Anglo-American philosophers. The principal audience for the book is teachers and students of philosophy, but the great interest in Hegel’s work and the clarity of Pinkard’s exposition ensure that historians of ideas, political scientists, and literary theorists will also read it.

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⭐Well worth the read. I will break this into several parts for the convenience of any future reader.1. WHY READ HEGEL. Hegel is probably one of the five most influential thinkers to ever live (and I am not counting Jesus as a human thinker – I think of him as divine). He invented, in my opinion, social progressivism – the most influential combination of religion and culture in the last 200 years. Thus, understanding his thought is, in my opinion, critical for any educated person.2. HEGEL IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT A GUIDE. I am convinced that Hegel cannot be comprehended without a guide. The Phenomenology is a book written in three distinct writing styles: the Preface is written as a treatise on human understanding and is partially in code, the Introduction is written as an exposition of the personal journey to understanding, and the body is a presentation of philosophy written in a format of a science fiction novel (very similar in structure to Bunyon’s “Pilgrim’s Progress, except the reader is the intended “pilgrim” and the varies “stops” are not labeled as such) which structure is neither explained nor detailed as such and, to top it off, is written in code (Both Merold Westphal and the author call it “Hegelese”).3. T. PINKARD IS AN EXCELLENT GUIDE. This is now the fifth commentary (explanation) of Hegel’s Phenomenology I have read. In my opinion, it is the best. It’s writing style is clear and Professor Pinkard makes clear, I believe, that Hegel has been horribly misunderstood for at least 100 years. If a reader wishes to understand Hegel, this book is probably the best starting point.

⭐Hegel is impossible to comprehend without a guide, as had been stated in one of the prior reviews. Terry Pinkard does a very good job in this. I started out with Zizek long time ago. But Zizek almost always handles philosophers in a rather narrow framework that he had confessed to be his primary project. I moved on to trying on my own to read the Phenomenology. After two different translations, I gave up the enterprise, walking out empty handed. No progress at all beyond what I had learned from Zizek. That until I accidentally stumbled into Pinkard’s book. Prof. Pinkard focuses on illuminating the entire work, not just choice topical bits and pieces. But he is far beyond a faithful translator. He sprinkles the pseudo translated passages with his own commentary, again, focused on illumination, not opining.

⭐The Kindle version of this bookIs what is called a print replica. In this book at least it does not live up to advance billing. I have another print replica book and it allows me to search and highlight just fine. However, this book only allows you to highlight blocks that are square or rectangle in shape. You cannot hide like individual sentences. The search feature does not work at all. It is almost not as useful as the physical copy would be. The contents of this book are fascinating and are being dealt a huge disservice by the lousy Kindle form of the book.

⭐The task that Prof. Pinkard undertakes in this work is to “reconstruct” Hegel’s Phenomenology in an understandable way without losing the philosophical force of the work. In this he has been amazingly successful.Highly recommend this to anyone who wishes to understand Hegel’s Phenomenology. Of course the thought remains difficult, but the difficulty of this text is because of the unusual and complex nature nature of the ideas and not the result of undefined terms or convoluted sentence structure.

⭐I’m an American PhD student currently writing my dissertation on Hegel and Heidegger. A lot of people have written books on Hegel; perhaps no one writes as clearly and accessibly about Hegel as Terry Pinkard. This is by far the best book on the Phenomenology of Spirit I have read; if you read it in parallel with his 2018 translation of the Phenomenology of Spirit (the first adequate English translation of the book), you will be in good hands.

⭐Even though I fundamentally disagree with Pinkard’s interpretation I found that this book has many insights into Hegel.Also the book is clearly written.

⭐This is an important book that helps the contemporary reader gain access to and understand Hegel’s masterwork, the “Phenomenology of Spirit”. It stands next to and supplements well the French philosopher Jean Hyppolite’s (Foucault’s teacher) classic book “Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenolog of Spirit”.Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, Palo Alto, California

⭐It’s Pinkard on Hegel, so it’s an important book. But please don’t buy this book from the seller Repro-Books-on-Demand unless you’re getting a reasonable price advantage. The books they’re sending out are not the original Cambridge print but first copies. I’ve decided to return the book I just received from them and will be ordering the original imported edition from a different seller (Bookswagon) at a slightly higher price. Repro-Books-on-Demand books are just not good enough for collection/longkeeping.

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