Hegel's Ladder :The Odyssey of Spirit (Vol 2)

"Hegel's Ladder aspires to be...a 'literal commentary' on Die Phanomenologie des Geistes ...It was the conscious goal of my thirty-year struggle with Hegel to write an explanatory commentary on the book; and with its completion I regard my own 'working' career as concluded...The prevailing habit of commentators...is founded on the general consensus of opinion that whatever else it may be, Hegel's Phenomenology is not the logical 'science' that he believed it was. This is the received view that I want to overthrow. But if I am right, then an acceptably continuous chain of argument, paragraph by paragraph, ought to be discoverable in the text." -- from the Preface. A two-volume set. Print edition available in cloth only. Awarded the Nicholas Hoare/Renaud-Bray Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize, 2001 From the Preface: Hegel's Ladder aspires to be . . . a literal commentary on Die Phnomenologie des Geistes . . . . It was the conscious goal of my thirty-year struggle with Hegel to write an explanatory commentary on this book; and with its completion I regard my own working career as concluded. . . . The prevailing habit of commentators . . . is founded on the general consensus of opinion that whatever else it may be, Hegels Phenomenology is not the logical Science that he believed it was. This is the received view that I want to overthrow. But if I am right, then an acceptably continuous chain of argument, paragraph by paragraph, ought to be discoverable in the text. A two-volume set. Print edition available in cloth only.Awarded the Nicholas Hoare/Renaud-Bray Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize, 2001From the Preface:Hegel's Ladder aspires to be... a ‘literal commentary'on Die Phänomenologie des Geistes.... It was the conscious goal of my thirty-year struggle with Hegel to write an explanatory commentary on this book; and with its completion I regard my own ‘working'career as concluded.... The prevailing habit of commentators... is founded on the general consensus of opinion that whatever else it may be, Hegel's Phenomenology is not the logical ‘Science'that he believed it was. This is the received view that I want to overthrow. But if I am right, then an acceptably continuous chain of argument, paragraph by paragraph, ought to be discoverable in the text. V. 1. The Pilgrimage Of Reason -- V. 2. The Odyssey Of Spirit. H.s. Harris. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.