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Hegel: A First Encounter With The Absolute
Paperback
Series: The Thinkers
Publisher: Global East-West Ltd
Published: May 3 2026
Pages: 452
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Hegel: The Journey of Consciousness Towards Absolute Freedom.
Have you ever felt that today's world is rife with insurmountable contradictions? Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the giant of German idealism, built his entire philosophy on the idea that these tensions are precisely what drive humanity forward.
In this new essay from the Thinkers and Philosophers collection, we invite you to a transformative encounter with the Absolute. This book is not merely an academic treatise; it is a manual for intellectual formation (Bildung) that teaches you to think 'dialectically'.
What you will explore:
- The dialectical method: Understanding how every thing contains its own negation in order to evolve towards a higher synthesis.
- The odyssey of the Spirit: Following the path of human consciousness, from simple sensory certainty to absolute knowledge.
- Social recognition: Why we need the gaze of others to be free, a concept more relevant than ever in the digital age.
- The meaning of history: Hegel helps us see the rationality behind the apparent chaos of world events.
Through a rigorous yet accessible analysis, this book does justice to Hegel's ambition to 'conceive of the whole'. It provides readers with the tools to interpret his major works (Logic, Law, Aesthetics, etc.) and to understand why Hegel remains an indispensable figure in any serious reflection on freedom and the state.
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