Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277) and index
Hegel and the myth of reason -- Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit as a systematic fragment -- The architectonic of Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit -- Points of contact in the philosophy of religion of Hegel and Schopenhauer -- Kierkegaard's criticism of the absence of ethics in Hegel's system -- Kierkegaard's criticism of abstraction and his proposed solution: appropriation -- Kierkegaard's recurring criticism of Hegel's The good and conscience -- Hegel and Nietzsche on the death of tragedy and Greek ethical life -- Existentialist ethics -- Merleau-Ponty's criticisms of Sartre's theory of freedom -- Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on consciousness and bad faith