Kenneth R Westphal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia.
A reader-friendly, yet philosophically sharp and textually reliable
introduction to one of the classics of western philosophy. Westphal
shows why the dramatic, quasi-historical, structure of Hegel’s work
is not accidental to it, but is rather required by the reflective,
self-critical, nature of judgement that Hegel assumes from the
beginning. The book will be of interest to readers who approach
Hegel with analytical as well as phenomenological preconceptions,
and of use (but for different reasons) to undergraduates and
graduate students alike. --George di Giovanni, McGill
University
Westphal argues that epistemological realism is compatible with a
social and historical constructivism, and that Hegel shows us how a
self-critical community of human knowers can achieve (and
reflectively appreciate) knowledge of the world around them and
their place in it. Almost 200 years ago Hegel had the kind of
epistemology we now know we need! I hope this book will put Hegel
back into the canon of epistemology. --Willem de Vries, University
of New Hampshire
Philosophically, the most satisfying and sophisticated account of
the Phenomenology yet. --Frederick Beiser, Syracuse University
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