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"""Infinite Phenomenology is an entirely welcome original piece of scholarship on Hegel's text and contribution to phenomenology. . . . [Russon] presents careful accounts of the primary text without losing sight of the distinctive philosophical interest that animates it. He presents Hegel's arguments in terms of familiar experiences without leveling off the vital significances he wants to show that they express. And his account of Hegel's phenomenology is ultimately justified by his own success in making explicit continuities and discontinuities between the text and subsequent developments in European philosophy. Infinite Phenomenology should prove to be equally a helpful guide to those reading Hegel's text for the first time, and a lively interlocutor for more advanced students of Hegel, German idealism, and European philosophy."" --Timothy L. Brownlee, Xavier University ""Infinite Phenomenology emphasizes not the historical text but the pedagogy one might draw from serious consideration of Hegel's description of the individual, social, and institutional structures of self-consciousness. It is particularly welcome, in this time where circumstances seem to exacerbate differences among cultures, classes, ethnicities, political arrangements and religions. . . . The book's language is fluid and jargon-free; the Hegelian experiential lessons it expounds would be useful in both higher-level undergraduate and graduate courses. They are supported by an exoskeleton of textual scholarship, including German citations and a brief history of twentieth-century Francophone Hegel interpretation. I find the book engaging, deep, and useful."" --Michael Vater, Marquette University"

Infinite Phenomenology emphasizes not the historical text but the pedagogy one might draw from serious consideration of Hegel's description of the individual, social, and institutional structures of self-consciousness. It is particularly welcome, in this time where circumstances seem to exacerbate differences among cultures, classes, ethnicities, political arrangements and religions. . . . The book's language is fluid and jargon-free; the Hegelian experiential lessons it expounds would be useful in both higher-level undergraduate and graduate courses. They are supported by an exoskeleton of textual scholarship, including German citations and a brief history of twentieth-century Francophone Hegel interpretation. I find the book engaging, deep, and useful. --Michael Vater, Marquette University Infinite Phenomenology is an entirely welcome original piece of scholarship on Hegel's text and contribution to phenomenology. . . . [Russon] presents careful accounts of the primary text without losing sight of the distinctive philosophical interest that animates it. He presents Hegel's arguments in terms of familiar experiences without leveling off the vital significances he wants to show that they express. And his account of Hegel's phenomenology is ultimately justified by his own success in making explicit continuities and discontinuities between the text and subsequent developments in European philosophy. Infinite Phenomenology should prove to be equally a helpful guide to those reading Hegel's text for the first time, and a lively interlocutor for more advanced students of Hegel, German idealism, and European philosophy. --Timothy L. Brownlee, Xavier University

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John Russon is a professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. With Patricia Fagan, he edited Reexamining Socrates in the “Apology” (2009), and with John Sallis, he edited Retracing the Platonic Text (1999), both published by Northwestern University Press.

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