Cognition
Subtitle: an introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit
By: Tom Rockmore.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.; Knowledge, Theory of.; Consciousness.; Spirit.
Description: In this companion volume to his general introduction to Hegel, Tom Rockmore offers a passage-by-passage guide to the Phenomenology for first-time readers of the book and others who are not Hegel specialists.

Rockmore demonstrates that Hegel's concepts of spirit, consciousness, and reason can be treated as elements of a single, coherent theory of knowledge, one that remains strikingly relevant for the contemporary discussion. He shows how the various conceptions of cognition developed in the text culminate in absolute knowing, which Rockmore reads, in opposition to the frequent religious readings of Hegel, in a wholly secular manner.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-237) and index.