The Hegel Reader, Stephen Houlgate

The Hegel Reader, edited by Professor Stephen Houlgate, is a landmark anthology offering unparalleled access to the full breadth of G.W.F. Hegel’s thought—from the  Phenomenology of Spirit to his lectures on aesthetics and religion. Praised by Jay Bernstein as “the most comprehensive and useful selection” of Hegel’s work, it has been central to Houlgate’s teaching at Warwick for over 25 years. The Reader has enabled generations of students to engage deeply with one of philosophy’s most challenging figures—sometimes so deeply that one student, after a lecture on self-consciousness, exclaimed: “Wow, that was intense!”