Hegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the "philosophy of history." With this work, he created the history of philosophy as a scientific study. He reveals philosophical theory as neither an accident nor an artificial construct, but as an exemplar of its age.

"The Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is G.W.F. Hegel's remarkable philosophical text that examines the dynamics of human experience from its simplest beginnings in consciousness through its development into ever more complex and self-conscious forms. The work explores the inner discovery of reason and its progressive expansion into spirit, a world of intercommunicating and interacting minds reconceiving and re-creating themselves...

Extrait : "Les matières contenues dans cette partie de la philosophie qui va maintenant nous occuper sont les mêmes que l'on rencontre dans la plupart des traités de logique. Mais dans mon système, il faut le bien remarquer, elles sont étroitement liées à toutes celles que l'on désigne généralement sous d'autres noms;".