Introductions to Hegel

Today I asked Twitter to recommend introductions to Hegel written in English.

Here were the responses in order of length:

• Richard Kroner: Hegel’s Philosophical Development (1948), 42 pages
• H. S. Harris: Hegel: Phenomenology and System (1995), 128 pages (2 votes)
• Peter Singer: Hegel: A Very Short Introduction (2001), 152 pages (2 votes)
• GRG Mure: Introduction to Hegel (1940), 204 pages
• Josiah Royce: Lectures on Modern Idealism (2007), 280 pages
• Stephen Houlgate: An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History (2009), 332 pages
• Frederick Beiser: Hegel (2005), 384 pages (2 votes)
• Richard Dien Winfield: Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures (2013), 406 pages
• Terry Pinkard: Hegel’s Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason (1994), 463 pages
• Richard Kroner’s introduction to the Early Theological Writings (1950)

For Kojève’s Hegel:

• Alexandre Kojève: Introduction to the Reading of Hegel (1939), 304 pages
• Francis Fukuyama: The End of History and the Last Man (2020), 464 pages

I compiled a list of the tweets in this thread.

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