This book discusses the most comprehensive of Hegel’s works: his long-neglected Encyclopedia. It contains original essays by internationally renowned and emerging voices in Hegel scholarship. Their contributions elucidate fundamental aspects of Hegel’s encyclopedic system with an eye to its contemporary relevance.

1. Introduction

Sebastian Stein and Joshua Wretzel

2. Hegel’s science of reason as a science of freedom: from Nuremberg to Heidelberg

Klaus Vieweg

3. Hegel’s Heidelberg Encyclopedia as the principal work of a metaphysics of Geist

Jens Halfwassen

4. Philosophy as the Science of Freedom

Luca Illetterati

5. Hegel’s System and the Negativity of Dialectic

Anton Friedrich Koch

6. The Encyclopedia as a Form of Worship

Roberto Vinco

7. Between Religion and the Empirical Sciences: Hegel’s Concept of philosophical science according to the Introduction to the Encyclopedia

Friedrike Schick

8. Temporal Strata of Historical Experience in Hegel’s Encyclopedia

Christopher Yeomans

9. Hegel’s Logic as a System of Illegitimate Totalities

Michaela Bordignon

10. Nature’s Otherness: On the Status of Nature in Hegel’s Encyclopedic System

Johannes-Georg Schülein

11. The Two Souls: On the Difference Between Human and Animal Cognition in Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit and Philosophy of Nature

Luca Corti

12. Truth and Method in the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences

Joshua Wretzel

13. Objective Geist Today

Jean-François Kervégan

14. The Absolute Spirit as the Consummation of Hegel’s Concept of Truth

Tobias Dangel

15. The Proximity of Philosophy to Religion: Hegel’s Evaluative Reason

Dean Moyar

16. Hegel’s notion of philosophy: the concept-based unity of self-referential universality and differentiated particularity

Sebastian Stein