This volume fills a lamentable gap in the philosophical literature by providing a collection of writings from the pivotal generation of thinkers between Kant and Hegel. It includes some of Hegel's earliest critical writings--which reveal much about his thinking before the first mature exposition of his position in 1807--as well as Schelling's justification of the new philosophy of nature against skeptical and religious attack. This edition contains George di Giovanni s extensive corrections, new preface, and thoroughly updated bibliography."

A two-volume set. Print edition available in cloth only.

Awarded the Nicholas Hoare/Renaud-Bray Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize, 2001

From the Preface:

"Hegel's Ladder" aspires to be . . . a literal commentary on "Die Phanomenologie des Geistes." . . . It was the conscious goal of my thirty-year struggle with Hegel to write an explanatory commentary on this book; and with its completion I regard my own working career as concluded. . . . The prevailing habit of commentators . . . is founded on the general consensus of opinion that whatever else it may be, Hegel s...