Abstract

“The Phenomenology is a grand and passionate vision, a conceptual symphony, the recognition of a new ‘spirit’ which was coming to be and needed a sense of itself, through the auspices of philosophy. The Phenomenology is not to be compared so much to Aristotle or Kant as to Goethe’s Faust, or perhaps to Beethoven’s compositions of the same time and similar circumstances. It is great philosophy, but it is, first of all, a spiritual autobiography, a passionate confession, an enthusiastic encounter with ‘destiny’”. This is one of the descriptions offered by Solomon and, as one can see, he has taken his stand on one of the major thematics which have governed the reading of Hegel’s first, great work.