Abstract

This meticulous translation of a series of lectures which Heidegger delivered in 1930-1931 on the opening part of the Phenomenology of Spirit marks an important contribution to the works already available that recount his rather punctuated dialogue with Hegel. As such, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit rounds out Heidegger's somewhat murky encounter with Hegelian philosophy, his attempt to think what is unthought in the dialectical "journey" of consciousness. Unlike some of the other works already in translation, these lectures reveal Heidegger's explicit desire to preserve the Phenomenology as a text in its own right and to evoke its latent power without initially seeking to build a bridge between his own inquiry into being and Hegel's speculative philosophy.