Interpreting Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

<p>This book focuses on the interpretations of Hegel’s <i>Phenomenology of Spirit</i> that have proved influential over the past decades. Current readers of Hegel’s <i>Phenomenology </i>face an abundance of interpretive literature devoted to this difficult text and confront a plethora of different philosophical presuppositions research strategies and hermeneutic efforts.To enable a better orientation within the interpretative landscape the essays in this volume summarize contextualize and critically comment on the issues and currents in contemporary <i>Phenomenology</i> scholarship. There is a common set of three questions that each of the contributions seeks to answer: (1) What kind of text is <em>The Phenomenology of Spirit</em>? (2) What do the different strategies of interpretation conceptually bring to the text? (3) How do different interpreters justify their verdict on whether the <i>Phenomenology </i>is still a viable project?</p>