This book focuses on the interpretations of Hegel’s
Phenomenology of Spirit
that have proved influential over the past decades. Current readers of Hegel’s
Phenomenology
face an abundance of interpretive literature devoted to this difficult text and confront a plethora of different philosophical presuppositions, research strategies and hermeneutic efforts.To enable a better orientation within the interpretative landscape, the essays in this volume summarize, contextualize and critically comment on the issues and currents in contemporary
scholarship. There is a common set of three questions that each of the contributions seeks to answer: (1) What kind of text is
The Phenomenology of Spirit
? (2) What do the different strategies of interpretation conceptually bring to the text? (3) How do different interpreters justify their verdict on whether the
is still a viable project?