Hegel's classic "Phenomenology of Spirit" is considered by many to be the most difficult text in all of philosophical literature. In interpreting the work, scholars have often used the "Phenomenology" to justify the ideology that has tempered their approach to it, whether existential, ontological, or, particularly, Marxist. Werner Marx deftly avoids this trap of misinterpretation by rendering lucid the objectives that Hegel delineates in the Preface and Introduction and using these to examine the whole of the "Phenomenology." Marx considers selected materials from Hegel's text in order both...