This is an incredibly rich and provocative book for such a slim volume, and it will no doubt become a standard accompaniment to many classes on the Phenomenology, a kind of short, lucid skeleton key to the whole book.
Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University Out of his magisterial scholarship Harris gives us three gifts in a surprisingly small package. First there is a lucid account of what Hegel’s philosophical goal is. Then there is a running summary of the Phenomenology. . . . Finally, we get a concise account of what it all means, Harris’s view of the interrelationships and relative significance of the various parts of the system.
Merold Westphal, Fordham University