An important companion to contemporary Hegel studies, this book will be of interest to all students of Hegel's philosophy.

Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Introduction
Part 1. Consciousness
1. Sense, Time, and My Meaning
2. From Perception to Philosophy
3. Understanding: Things, Forces, and the Body
Part 2. Self-Consciousness
4. Death and Desire in Hegel's Epistemology: The Form of Hegel's Argument
5. Reading and the Body
6. Hermeneutical Pressure: Intersubjectivity and Objectivity
7. The "Freedom of Self-Consciousness" and Early Modern Epistemology
Part 3. The Absolute
Reason
8. Reason and Dualism
Spirit
9. Spirit and Skepticism
10. The Contradictions of Moral Life: Hegel's Critique of Kant
11. Selfhood, Conscience, and Dialectic
Religion
12. The Ritual Basis of Self-Identity
13. Vision and Image in Hegel's System
14. Deciding to Read: On the Horizon (of Christianity)
Absolute Knowing
15. Absolute Knowing: The Structure and Project of Hegel's System of Science
Notes
Bibliography
Index

John Russon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. He is author of Human Experience: Philosophy, Neurosis, and the Elements of Everyday Life.