Drawing Near to God: The Bible and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft Und Geistesgeschichte 87 (1):6-61 (2013)
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Abstract

Two hundred years after its publication, The Phenomenology of Spirit (PhS) remains an enigmatic and challenging text, subject to a variety of interpretations. In this paper I seek to open up an additional interpretative space by emphasizing the influence of Hegel’s study of the Bible at the Tübingen Stift (1790–1793) on PhS. In a letter written to Schelling in 1795, Hegel had wondered what it might mean to »draw near to God.« It is the hypothesis of this paper that answering that question was at least part of Hegel’s intent for PhS.

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Hegel: A Biography.Terry Pinkard - 2000 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 63 (2):414-416.
“Morality” in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.Frederick C. Beiser - 2009 - In Kenneth R. Westphal (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 209–225.

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