Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline, Part 1, Science of Logic (Cambridge Hegel Translations)

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The newest and best academic version.

The introductory essay by Brinkmann and Dahlstrom may be alone worth the price of this volume. Their introduction gives a superbly clear and reasonable overview of Hegel's entire philosophical project. This new Cambridge translation along with the new translation of the larger Logic by Di Giovanni mark a turning point in Anglophone Hegel scholarship. Good riddence to the mid-20th-century biases, fears, and confusions wrought by Karl Popper and Bertrand Russell upon the (mis)understanding of Hegel in the English-speaking world. This book reflects a more enlightened and sober assessment of Hegel's work that has been emerging in the recent Anglophone Hegel renaissance, for which other contemporary Hegel scholars like Houlgate, Pippin, Pinkard, and Brandom also deserve credit.

I'm an expert in neither Hegel's thought nor the German language, but this edition is certainly easy to read compared to other Hegel translations I've encountered. Only problem is the cover. I HATE philosophy book covers that are just pictures of the philosopher's ugly mug, and the image here is probably the very ugliest surviving picture of the ugliest philosopher since Socrates. At least it's a direct depiction of him and not a kitschy idealized portrait by someone who lived centuries after his work. This is a trifling complaint, as thankfully no-one uses Hegel as a reference for cosmetology or graphic design. It's unfortunate, though, that this seemingly-good translation can't be bound in the elegantly simple covers of, for example, the Hackett series or the Miller translation of the Phenomenology.