Acknowledgments
On Reading Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Beginning: Philosophy and the Problem of the Preface
Our Time Is the Birth-Time of Spirit: Kant and the Bird on a Lime-Twig
Part I: Epoche
1. Critique of Immediacy: The Unreality of the Sensuous
2. Self-Consciousness: The Fate of the Singleton
3. Happiness: Reason at Work
Part II: The Phenomenology of Spirit
4. Spirit, or Transubstantiated Life: Infrastructures of Community
Part III: Absolute Knowing: The Betrayal of Substance
5. Leaving Literature Behind: The Return to Immediacy in the Life of the Concept
Bibliography
Index