History and Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology, Third Edition

"This fairly small book must take its place as the best introductory study of Hegel's Phenomenology available." --Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

"Westphal's book is a comprehensive guide to the argument of the entire phenomenology.... will repay close study by serious undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy." --Choice

This detailed interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit seeks to show that the unity of this classic work may be found in the integration of its transcendental and sociological-historical themes.

Merold Westphal is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He is author of God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion and Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism and is coeditor (with Martin J. Matusik [hacheck over s, acute accent over i] of Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity.