Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction by David Sherman Part I. G.W.F. Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit: Self-Consciousness translated by Leo Rauch 1. Chapter IV: The Truth of Self-Certainty 2. Hegel's Summary of Self-Consciousness from the "Phenomenology of Spirit" in the Philosophical Propaedeutic (1809) Part II. A Discussion of the Text by Leo Rauch 3. What is "Self-Consciousness"?: An Overview 4. On Hegel's Aims and Methods 5. Before "Self-Consciousness" 6. Self-Consciousness and Self-Certainty (Para. 1-12) 7. Mastery and Slavery (Para. 13-31) 8. Stoicism, Skepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness (Para. 32-65) 9. After "Self-Consciousness" 10. Early-Twentieth-Century European Criticism Part III. The Denial of the Self: The Repudiation of Hegelian Self-Consciousness in Recent European Thought by David Sherman 11. Overview 12. Georges Bataille 13. Gilles Deleuze 14. Jacques Lacan 15. Jurgen Habermas and Axel Honneth Notes Index

About the Author

Leo Rauch was Professor of Philosophy of Babson College and the author of several books including Hegel and the Human Spirit: A Translation and Discussion of the Jena 1805-6 Lectures. David Sherman is a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews

"It provides a focussed presentation and discussion of this single, all-important chapter from Hegel's Phenomenology, and sets it in the context of a review of major commentaries from twentieth-century continental philosophy on this particular text." -Philip T. Grier, Dickinson College "This is an intelligent, insightful, and friendly presentation of chapter IV of Hegel's Phenomenology, a most perplexing, multifaceted, and fertile chapter in an exciting, difficult, and enigmatic book." - Peter G. Stillman, editor of Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit