Introducing Hegel: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

I studied this mainly to look at the couple pages on the dialectical ideas of Georg Hegel. They did help a lot in terms of sharing terminology and main ideas. Of course, I liked discovering the life and history of Hegel too in relation to his peers and period of time. If you would like a simple introduction to Hegel, this can help you.

Having read many (not all) of Hegel's texts (in English translations), I purchased this "Introducing" (and several others) for pure entertainment; they are like the intellectual comic books of my youth. That said, it seemed a good introduction to Hegel's thought and complex system-making, to be read before or right after the Phenomenology of Mind (Baillie trans.) This little book nicely contextualizes Hegel and explains many obscure terms and verbal usages.

Never heard of him but he is the beginning of the stairs up the philosophical stair case. Is a good start

I've read and enjoyed many of the "Introducing..." series over the years. And I got a lot from Hegel too. But this edition is so much smaller than they have been in the past that I had to use reading glasses. The sketches became very crowded and instead of a graphic explanation of the text, they became something else that had to be deciphered with a magnifying glass. Old versions were 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; new version 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 with just as much stuff crammed on each page. Cheaper to produce I suppose, harder for me to read.

The written content is very clearly and concisely written but I had a lot of trouble downloading the book. I tried restarting my phone and even using a VPN (to digitally give myself a digital signature of being in another country, which sometimes help when doing things online where I live) and quite a few photos aren't complete, to the point that I feel a rather cheated. The attached images show that these images are fully downloaded but are only a fraction of what the photo should be (as indicated by the 3 sharp corners in contrast to the 1 rounded corner). If a new version is released and I get those images I'll definitely change my mind though.

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A good introduction to the thought and work of Hegel.

This one is a four star publication. It is only a very short introduction to Hegel, but it is very good. It does spend a goodly amount of time focusing on his biography. Furthermore, it spends a good amount of time focusing on his philosophy, and not on what others say about him. Unlike most of the books like this type, it focuses on a real biography of the person.Moreover, it provides a good look at who he is, and what he believes as a philosopher. It's not what others believe, nor what they believe in relation to him. You get a good perspective of who he is.This is one of the better Icon Books in this series. This is one not to miss! This is a free book if you have a prime membership. Check it out!

As a graphic it's great. As a hegel text, a bit incomplete

Lenin, a good scholar as much as a bloody tyrant who stole the salvation of a nation, once remarked "It is impossible completely to understand Marx's Capital, and especially its first chapter, without having thoroughly studied and understood the whole of Hegel's Logic. Consequently, half a century later none of the Marxists understood Marx!", and he was, perhaps on one of very few occasions, damn right.Reapproaching Marxism myself, I found studying Hegel a necessity to get to its underlying roots. Having originally abandoned Marxism for anarchism several years ago, one of my main points of contention was what I thought was Marx's copying of Hegel's stage-based analysis of history, and the sense of inevitability it espoused; this I thought, taking Nietzsche's lead, was insane. However, since finding anarchism ultimately in its current state unpragmatic and in part pretentious, I have decided upon a reassesment of the foundations of Marxist theory, starting with the godfather himself, Hegel. A fan of the Introducing... series, I thought this was a good place to start, and I was shocked to discover there is way more to Hegel than at first you may think; he had created, as one scholor put it, the "last great system", that is to say an awesome overarching superstructure with its own system of logic (dialectical reasoning), a philosophy of natural processes and physics, morality, philosophy of law and metapolitics, and its own aesthetic analysis, all linked together in an historical framework, guided by what Hegel called the "Absolute Spirit" (it sounds silly at first, but read as a metaphor, you can kind of see what he's getting at). It also becomes clear he was no conservative prude, but a classical liberal, revolutionary democrat and a critic of academic theology and anti-Semitism, who supported the Napoleanic Order and the reforms of the Prussian state, even originally criticising the very existence of states as an impediment to what he desired most of all: freedom for all persons across all cultures (as such with the Dialectic of Master and Slave).This book in itself is a good overview; you may feel putting it down at the end confused or cheated, but that's only because the length and breadth of Hegel is so vast and complex, only a holistic approach to his work and the analyses of thinkers such as Marx and Adorno (who once admitted Hegel wrote various passages of such obscure prose that it is pratically impossible to decipher what he meant) will do him justice. I'm going to next start with reading his Shorter Logic and maybe Singer's book too, before cracking on with the Phenomonology of the Spirit (and I'd advise you to take the same path).

First such review and first such book in relation to philosophy but for someone who has no real background or understanding of philosophy other than of hearing names such as Plato/Aristotle but who is trying belatedly to get a broader knowledge this was a good book to find and written to a level that a layman like me was able to understand. I intend to read further titles from this series and use that as a basis for further reading/understanding.

I've now read most of the books on philosophers in the 'Introducing'series. Some are really useful and helped me gain a quick overview of the key points of the work of various philosophers, before reading their actual works in more detail (this helped me spot the highlights more readily).However, let me say, this one on Hegel has to be the worst book in the series. I found myself constantly lost and having to look up terms in other resources. It digressed constantly to introduce other philosophers and then did a really poor job explaining what it was that Hegel took from them. What i wanted was a real introduction, a book that laid out the key thoughts of the man in PLAIN ENGLISH. What i got is a book that seems to be written to be inaccessible to the layman unless you've read Hegels work and are actually familiar with some of his labels.Please ignore this book, by far the worst in the series. Total waste of my time and money.

Graphical presentation makes the difficult subject very easy. Though the book is very short and compact, it covers Hegelian Philosophy in its entirety.