Wood, Robert E.: Hegel's Introduction to the System: Encyclopaedia Phenomenology and Psychology
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WOOD, Robert E. Hegel's Introduction to the System: Encyclopaedia and Psychology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. xi + 210 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95--This is a very fine introduction to Hegel's system of philosophy. Unlike so many other commentators on Hegel's work, Robert E. Wood takes seriously Hegel's own suggestions about how one should be initiated into the system. It is well known that Hegel's 1807 of was written as a kind of ladder by means of which the reader might ascend to the point of view of Hegel's system. Less well known is the fact that Hegel later reformulated some of his central arguments from the and reprised them in his Philosophy of Spirit, which constitutes the third part of his Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences. In this book, Wood provides a brief account of Hegel's life and thought, a general overview of Hegel's Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences, a new translation of key sections of the Philosophy of Spirit, and section-by-section commentary on the newly translated material. In the first chapter of this book, Wood sets the stage by contextualizing Hegel's life and work. Though the biographical overview is highly condensed, Wood rightly underscores some of the central issues that animated Hegel's philosophical project, including Hegel's concern over a fundamental question: How must the cosmos be constituted so that the ongoing development of human rationality--in science, technology, government, and art--is possible? In the next three chapters, Wood provides a summary of each of the three main parts which make up Hegel's Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences: the Logic, the Philosophy of Nature, and the Philosophy of Spirit. With the fifth chapter of this book, Wood begins to provide his translation and running commentary. The newly translated material is taken from the three subsections which make up the first part--the Subjective Spirit part--of Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit. These three subsections are: Anthropology (chapter five in Wood's book), Phenomenology (chapter six), and Psychology (chapter seven). In these three central chapters, Wood has wisely opted to place his section-by-section commentary in close proximity to each translated section upon which it is a commentary. So immediately after providing a section of translated text, Wood provides his commentary on that text; he then goes on to provide the next section of translated text, which again is immediately followed by commentary on that text. With this ordering of text and commentary, the reader is spared the annoyance of having to thumb through several pages in order to move back and forth between translated text and commentary on that text. The book's two final chapters (chapters eight and nine) are dedicated to summarizing (though without any newly translated material) the second and third parts of Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit. These two parts, which follow the Subjective Spirit part, are the part on Objective Spirit (including the realms of right, morality, and ethical life) and the part on Absolute Spirit (including the realms of art, religion, and philosophy). …
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