Terry Pinkard is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University; author of German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism, Hegel: A Biography and Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason; and editor of Heinrich Heine on the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany.

original and very clear

• Preface ; Introduction ; Part One ; Chapter 1: Disenchanted Aristotelian Naturalism ; A: Hegel's Aristotelian Turn ; 1: Animal Life ; 2: The Inwardness of Animal Life ; B: From Animal Subjectivity to Human Subjectivity ; C: Animal Life and the Will ; Chapter 2: Self-Consciousness in the Natural World ; A: Animal and Human Awareness ; B: Consciousness of the World ; C. Self-Consciousness ; 1: Being at Odds with Oneself in Desire ; 2: The Attempt at Being at One with Oneself as Mastery Over Others ; 3. Masters, Slaves and Freedom ; 4: The Truth of Mastery and Servitude ; 5: Objectivity, Intuition and Representation ; Part Two ; Chapter 3: The Self-Sufficient Good ; A: Actualized Agency: The Sublation of Happiness ; B: The Actually Free Will ; C: The Impossibility of Autonomy and the "Idea" of Freedom ; D. Being at One with Oneself as a Self-Sufficient Final End ; Chapter 4: Inner Lives and Public Orientation ; A. Failure in Forms of Life ; B. The Phenomenology of a Form of Life ; C. Greek Tensions, Greek Harmony ; D: Empire and the Inner Life ; Chapter Five: Public reasons, Private Reasons ; A. Enlightenment and Individualism ; B: Morality and Private Reasons ; C. Ethical Life and Public Reasons ; Chapter Six: The Inhabitable Alienation of Modern Life ; A: Alienation as Uninhabitability ; 1: Diderot's Dilemma ; 2: Civil Society and the Balance of Interests ; 3: Making the Sale and Getting at the Truth ; B: Power: the Limits of Morality in Politics ; 1. Bureaucratic Democracy? ; 2: The Nation State? ; Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Hegel as a Post-Hegelian ; A. Self-Comprehension ; 1: Hegelian Amphibians ; 2: Second Nature and Wholeness ; B: Final Ends?

Terry Pinkard is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University; author of German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism, Hegel: A Biography and Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason; and editor of Heinrich Heine on the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany.

original and very clear

• Preface ; Introduction ; Part One ; Chapter 1: Disenchanted Aristotelian Naturalism ; A: Hegel's Aristotelian Turn ; 1: Animal Life ; 2: The Inwardness of Animal Life ; B: From Animal Subjectivity to Human Subjectivity ; C: Animal Life and the Will ; Chapter 2: Self-Consciousness in the Natural World ; A: Animal and Human Awareness ; B: Consciousness of the World ; C. Self-Consciousness ; 1: Being at Odds with Oneself in Desire ; 2: The Attempt at Being at One with Oneself as Mastery Over Others ; 3. Masters, Slaves and Freedom ; 4: The Truth of Mastery and Servitude ; 5: Objectivity, Intuition and Representation ; Part Two ; Chapter 3: The Self-Sufficient Good ; A: Actualized Agency: The Sublation of Happiness ; B: The Actually Free Will ; C: The Impossibility of Autonomy and the "Idea" of Freedom ; D. Being at One with Oneself as a Self-Sufficient Final End ; Chapter 4: Inner Lives and Public Orientation ; A. Failure in Forms of Life ; B. The Phenomenology of a Form of Life ; C. Greek Tensions, Greek Harmony ; D: Empire and the Inner Life ; Chapter Five: Public reasons, Private Reasons ; A. Enlightenment and Individualism ; B: Morality and Private Reasons ; C. Ethical Life and Public Reasons ; Chapter Six: The Inhabitable Alienation of Modern Life ; A: Alienation as Uninhabitability ; 1: Diderot's Dilemma ; 2: Civil Society and the Balance of Interests ; 3: Making the Sale and Getting at the Truth ; B: Power: the Limits of Morality in Politics ; 1. Bureaucratic Democracy? ; 2: The Nation State? ; Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Hegel as a Post-Hegelian ; A. Self-Comprehension ; 1: Hegelian Amphibians ; 2: Second Nature and Wholeness ; B: Final Ends?