Attempting to right some of Miller's and Pinkard's wrongs. There is no other book quite like this, vacillating between a meditation and a romp, pursuing Hegel's complex thought with intensity and clarity. A 2013 draft of this translation. In his first lecture at the University of Berlin, Hegel laments: “ So ist das, was von jeher für das Schmählichste und Unwürdigste gegolten hat, der Erkenntnis der Wahrheit entsagen, vor unsern Zeiten zum höchsten Triumphe des Geistes erhoben worden. Chapter One excavates the character of absolute knowing (by distinguishing Kant's from Hegel's position). Da Schelling dieselbe vermittelst der intellektualen Anschauung, Hegel aber mittels des allumfassenden reinen Denkens, d. i. absoluten Wissens erkannt hat, so bildet Hegels System den Schlußstein der Entwicklung. The development of consciousness’s absolute knowledge is possible through the overcoming of self-alienation of consciousness. Hegels Philosophie des „absoluten Geistes“ umfasst seine Theorie der Kunst, der Religion und der Philosophie. Here, concept of alienation plays an important role in bringing consciousness to the shape of itself called absolute knowing. According to Hegel, consciousness cannot easily know itself with certainty. Der Geist wird sich erst als absoluter Geist des Prinzips der Welt, d. h. der absoluten Idee, bewusst (E III 366). Eine Weiterentwicklung über seine eigene absolute Philosophie, die alle früheren Momente in sich aufnimmt, hinaus ist nach Hegels Ansicht nicht möglich. Summary This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Apparent Knowing and Its Absolute Ground Discovery and Structure of the Self Absolute Knowing as Science of the Self References Absolute Knowing - The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit - Wiley Online Library Feel free to use and cite. 3. The Dash is a vibrant and engaging book on Hegel's importance for contemporary theory, emphasizing that it is the most speculative of his notions—absolute knowing—that most deserves our critical attention. For Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, to seek the truth, to come to a knowledge of the absolute truth is the duty of a philosopher. Sie wurde in den von ihm selbst publizierten Werken kaum ausgearbeitet und findet sich überwiegend in den Vorlesungsmitschriften. HEGEL-JAHRBUCH According to this need, which aims at conceiving absolute knowing as spirit that finally grasps itself as such, it seems appropriate to supplement the vision of absolute knowing as a simple culminating figure by combining it with all its logical-ontological potential.