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).