Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I. The Claims of Speculative Reason: 1. Aims of a new epoch; 2. Hegel's itinerary; 3. Self-positing spirit; Part II. Phenomenology: 4. The dialectic of consciousness; 5. Self-consciousness; 6. The formation of spirit; 7. The road to manifest religion; 8. The Phenomenology as interpretive dialectic; Part III. Logic: 9. A dialectic of categories; 10. Being; 11. Essence; 12. The concept; 13. The idea in nature; Part IV. History and Politics: 14. Ethical substance; 15. Reason and history; 16. The realized state; Part V. Absolute Spirit: 17. Art; 18. Religion; 19. Philosophy; Part VI. Conclusion: 20. Hegel today; Biographical note; Bibliography; Index.