PLEASE NOTE this is a sample reading list for the 2013-14 academic year – precise seminar content may change from year to year. Syllabus (subject to revision) Week 2: Introduction. Week 3: Overview of Consciousness and transition to Desire. Weeks 4: Desire and Recognition. Week 5-8: Recognition, Life and Death Struggle and Master/Slave relation. Weeks 9-10: Stoicism, Scepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. Bibliography Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A.V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), or The Hegel Reader, ed. S. Houlgate (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), pp. 50-123. (Note: The Hegel Reader contains parts of the Preface, the whole of the Introduction, the chapter on sense-certainty, the whole chapter on self-consciousness and the section on absolute freedom.) Also Recommended G.W.F. Hegel, Werke in zwanzig Bänden, eds. E. Moldenhauer and K.M. Michel (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1969ff) [Vol. 3: Phänomenologie des Geistes]. G.W.F. Hegel, Phänomenologie des Geistes, eds. H.F. Wessels and H. Clairmont (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1988). Secondary Texts A. Arndt and E. Müller, Hegels ‚Phänomenologie des Geistes’ heute (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2004). A. Denker and M. Vater, eds. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. New Critical Essays (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2003). R.B. Brandom, Tales of the Mighty Dead. Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of Intentionality (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002). J. Derrida, "From Restricted to General Economy: A Hegelianism Without Reserve", in Writing and Difference, trans. A. Bass (London: Routledge, 1978), pp. 251-77. W. Dudley, Understanding German Idealism (Stocksfield: Acumen, 2007). J.N. Findlay, Hegel: A Re-examination (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958). M. Forster, Hegel's Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit (Chicago: U. Chicago Press, 1998). H.F. Fulda and D. Henrich, eds. Materialien zu Hegels „Phänomenologie des Geistes“ (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1973). *H.-G. Gadamer, Hegel's Dialectic, trans. P.C. Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976). H.S. Harris, Hegel's Ladder, 2 vols (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997). *M. Heidegger, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, translated by P. Emad and K. Maly (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988). M. Heidegger, “Hegels Begriff der Erfahrung” in Holzwege (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1950), pp. 111-204. *S. Houlgate, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. A Reader’s Guide (London: Bloomsbury, 2013). S. Houlgate, “Phenomenology and De Re Interpretation: A Critique of Brandom’s Reading of Hegel”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 17, 1: 29-47. *S. Houlgate, An Introduction to Hegel. Freedom, Truth and History 2nd. ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005). S. Houlgate, “G.W.F. Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit”, in The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, ed. R. Solomon (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 8-29. S. Houlgate, “McDowell, Hegel and the Phenomenology of Sprit” (with response by McDowell and further responses by Houlgate and McDowell) The Owl of Minerva 41, 1-2 (2009-10): 13-60. *J. Hyppolite, Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. S. Cherniak and J. Heckman (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1974). W. Jaeschke, Hegel-Handbuch. Leben-Werk-Schule (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2003). W. Kaufmann, Hegel. Reinterpretation, Texts, Commentary (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966). D. Keenan, ed. Hegel and Contemporary Continental Philosophy (Albany: SUNY, 2004). D. Köhler and O. Pöggeler, eds. G.W.F. Hegel. Phänomenologie des Geistes (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1998). A. Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit", trans. J. H. Nichols, Jr. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980). L. Krasnoff, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. *Q. Lauer, A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (New York: Fordham University Press, 1976). W. Maker, Philosophy Without Foundations. Rethinking Hegel, (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994). W. Marx, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. P. Heath (New York: Harper and Row, 1975). J. McDowell, "The Apperceptive I and the Empirical Self: Towards a Heterodox Reading of 'Lordship and Bondage' in Hegel's Phenomenology", Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 47/48 (2003). D. Moyar and M. Quante, eds. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Sprit. A Critical Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). J. O'Neill, ed. Hegel's Dialectic of Desire and Recognition: Texts and Commentary (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996). T. Pinkard, Hegel's Phenomenology. The Sociality of Reason (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). R. Pippin, Hegel's Idealism. The Satisfactions of Self-consciousness (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). R. Pippin, Hegel on Self-consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010). P. Redding, Hegel's Hermeneutics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996). G. Rose, Hegel Contra Sociology (London: Athlone Press, 1981). J. Russon, Reading Hegel's Phenomenology (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004). L. Siep, Der Weg der “Phänomenologie des Geistes“ (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2000). R. Stern, ed. G.W.F. Hegel: Critical Assessments, 4 vols. (London: Routledge, 1993). R. Stern, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2013). *J. Stewart, ed. The Phenomenology of Spirit Reader (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998). J. Stewart, The Unity of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. A Systematic Interpretation (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2000). C. Taylor, Hegel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975). K. Vieweg and W. Welsch, eds. Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes. Ein kooperativer Kommentar (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2008). *K.R. Westphal, ed., The Blackwell Guide to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). K.R. Westphal, Hegel's Epistemological Realism. A Study of the Aim and Method of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989). M. Westphal, History and Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology (1979) (3rd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998). *R. Williams, Recognition. Fichte and Hegel on the Other (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992). R. Winfield, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013).