Table of Contents

1. In Place of an Introduction 2. Summary of the First Six Chapters of the Phenomenology of Spirit Complete Text of the First Three Lectures of the Academic Year 1937-1938 3. Summary of the Course in 1937-1938 Excerpt from the 1938-1939 Annuaire of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Section des Sciences religieuses 4. Philosophy and Wisdom Complete Text of the First Two Lectures of the Academic Year 1938-1939 5. A Note on Eternity, Time, and the Concept Complete Text of the Sixth through Eighth Lectures of the Academic Year 1938-1939 6. Interpretation of the Third Part of Chapter VIII of the Phenomenology of Spirit (conclusion) Complete Text of the Twelfth Lecture of the Academic Year 1938-1939 7. The Dialectic of the Real and the Phenomenological Method in Hegel Complete Text of the Sixth through Ninth Lectures of the Academic Year 1934-1935 Appendix The Structure of the Phenomenology of Spirit

About the Author

James H. Nichols, Jr., is Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. His published work includes a translation of Alexandre Kojeve's Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, also from Cornell.