The Unity of Hegel's “Phenomenology of Spirit”: A Systematic Interpretation by Jon Stewart, published by Northwestern University Press in 2011.  

A substantial scholarly study of G. W. F. Hegel's notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit, in which Stewart argues for the underlying unity and systematic structure of Hegel's philosophical project.  

Rather than treating the individual sections of the Phenomenology as isolated discussions, Stewart interprets the work as a continuous dialectical development rooted in Hegel's transformation of Kantian transcendental philosophy. He examines both the detailed movement of individual arguments and the broader role each section plays within Hegel's philosophical system.  

Topics include:  

• Hegel's intellectual background and methodology 

• Kant and transcendental philosophy 

• Consciousness and self-consciousness 

• Lordship and bondage 

• Reason 

• Spirit 

• Religion 

• Absolute knowing 

• Dialectical method 

• Mediation and immediacy 

• Universal and particular  

An important secondary work for students and researchers of Hegel, German Idealism, phenomenology, continental philosophy and the history of philosophy.  

Published as part of Northwestern University Press's respected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy series.