Commentary on Subjective Spirit

Part I: Subjective Spirit in Hegel

1. I.1 Access

  1. The Gap It Closes
  2. What Makes Access Difficult
  3. Where This Volume Stands in the System

2. I.2 The Entryway (§§ 381–387)

  1. Know Thyself — the Task (§ 377)
  2. The Transition Out of Nature (§ 381)
  3. Which Version Is the Better One?
  4. The Articulation of Spirit (§§ 385–386)
  5. The Articulation of the Subjective Spirit (§ 387)

3. Excursus: The Logical Determinations This Volume Uses

  1. Five Determinations, in Advance

4. I.3 Anthropology (§§ 388–412)

  1. What Anthropology Is Not
  2. What “Soul” Means Here
  3. The Three Stages and Their Organizing Principle
  4. The First Pass: Universal, Particular, Singular
  5. The Five Senses — and Why Hegel Holds Them Complete
  6. The First Failure: Passivity (§ 405)
  7. Habit as Second Nature (§§ 409–410)
  8. The Body as Sign

5. I.4 The Phenomenology (§§ 413–439)

  1. Why This Part Is Named After Another Book
  2. And Why the Phenomenology Is Propaedeutic
  3. What Consciousness Is (§§ 413–417)
  4. a. Consciousness in General (§§ 418–423)
  5. The Transition to Psychology

6. I.5 Psychology (§§ 440–482)

  1. Why “Psychology” Here Means Something Else
  2. What Spirit Is Here (§§ 440–444)
  3. The Advantage of Alphabetic Script — an Argument One Can Test
  4. Why Practical Spirit Points Ahead to Morality
  5. Why It Was Added — Peperzak’s Reconstruction
  6. Hösle’s Objection to the Ordering
  7. Looking Back — What Is Taken Over and What Is Passed On
  8. How It Continues — and Where To

7. I.5a Two Tests on the Whole

  1. Parallels to Logic — and How Far They Carry
  2. The Same Thing Three Times: The Spiral Staircase of Willing

8. I.6 What Remains

  1. What Subjective Spirit Has Developed
  2. What of This Still Holds Today
  3. And a Warning That Remains

Part II: The Reception

9. II.1 Hegel’s Own Lecture Courses

  1. An Editorial Finding That Belongs Here

10. II.2 The Students

  1. Overview of the Students
  2. The Structures Side by Side
  3. Anthropology and Psychology (1840): the deletion of the Phenomenology
  4. Psychology, 2nd edition (1843): the methodological program
  5. Leib und Seele [Body and Soul] (1837, 2nd ed. 1849)
  6. Schaller

11. II.3 The Opponents

  1. The Attack (1842)

12. II.4 The Interpreters

  1. The Formula of Division
  2. Stekeler-Weithofer: The Demystification
  3. Stederoth: The Comparative Commentary
  4. What He Contributes on the Sign
  5. What the Edition Achieves
  6. A Desideratum: The East Asian Reception