Pini Ifergan teaches philosophy at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Author of The Tragedy in Ethical Life: Hegel's Philosophy and the Spirit of Modernity (2010), he has also edited, annotated, and written interpretive introductions for Hebrew translations of several philosophical classics, including Hegel's Philosophy of Right (2011) and Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate (2005); and Kant's Conflict of the Faculties (2007). He is currently working on a book about the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg.

• Abbreviations Introduction 1. On the Origins of Hegel's Philosophical Motivation 2. The First Systematic Attempt to Conceptualize the Critique of Culture 3. 'The Philosophy of Spirit': toward a Schematic Account of Self-Consciousness 4. Jena Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit (1805/1806) References Index