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The Phenomenology of Mind

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1910

The 1910 Baillie translation of Hegel's Phenomenology, a key work on consciousness, spirit, and history.

This is Hegel's own major philosophical work on the development of consciousness and spirit.

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G. W. F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Mind, trans. J. B. Baillie, 1910. Scanned book, Internet Archive.

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This is an English translation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, originally written in German, translated with an introduction and notes by J. B. Baillie and published in 1910. It survives today as a scanned book held online.

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The Phenomenology is one of Hegel's most important works, tracing how human consciousness develops through stages toward self-knowledge. Its translation into English in 1910 helped spread Hegel's ideas to new readers and shows how his philosophy was studied decades after his death.

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