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The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1807 (original); modern reading

A volunteer audio reading of James Black Baillie's English translation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, his first major philosophical book.

This audio presents Hegel's first and most famous book, in English translation, though read by a modern volunteer, not Hegel.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Phenomenology of Mind, trans. James Black Baillie, 1807; LibriVox volunteer reading.

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This is a modern LibriVox volunteer audio recording of The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1, the English translation by James Black Baillie of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's 1807 work Phänomenologie des Geistes. The reading is performed by a volunteer, not Hegel himself.

Why it matters

This was Hegel's first book and is considered his most important and widely discussed work. It describes a three-stage dialectical development of Spirit (or Mind), and its German title can be translated either way because the word Geist carries both meanings.

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