No being, no singularity : Hegel’s critique of sense-certainty in the ,Phenomenology of Spirit‘

Abstract

It has always been a matter of great dispute what Hegel’s philosophy is about. There is not even an agreement on what he is driving at; we simply don’t know what he was talking about. To some he is a strict metaphysician with claims to ultimate justification and truth, to others he is more or less a cultural relativist. But almost all relevant books and papers discuss Hegel’s philosophy in general terms; very few have tried a detailed tme-to-the-text exegesis.