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 Wretzel2. 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 GeistJens Halfwassen4. Philosophy as the Science of FreedomLuca Illetterati5. Hegel’s System and the Negativity of DialecticAnton Friedrich Koch 6. The Encyclopedia as a Form of WorshipRoberto Vinco7. Between Religion and the Empirical Sciences: Hegel’s Concept of philosophical science according to the Introduction to the EncyclopediaFriedrike Schick 8. Temporal Strata of Historical Experience in Hegel’s EncyclopediaChristopher Yeomans 9. Hegel’s Logic as a System of Illegitimate TotalitiesMichaela Bordignon10. Nature’s Otherness: On the Status of Nature in Hegel’s Encyclopedic SystemJohannes-Georg Schülein11. The Two Souls: On the Difference Between Human and Animal Cognition in Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit and Philosophy of NatureLuca Corti12. Truth and Method in the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical SciencesJoshua Wretzel13. Objective Geist TodayJean-François Kervégan14. The Absolute Spirit as the Consummation of Hegel’s Concept of TruthTobias Dangel15. The Proximity of Philosophy to Religion: Hegel’s Evaluative ReasonDean Moyar16. Hegel’s notion of philosophy: the concept-based unity of self-referential universality and differentiated particularitySebastian Stein