黑格尔（1770-1831）是德国唯心主义的集大成者，西方哲学史上最伟大的哲学家之一。求学于图宾根大学（与谢林、荷尔德林为同窗），先后任教于耶拿大学、海德堡大学、柏林大学。主要著作有《费希特和谢林的哲学体系的差别》（1801）、《精神现象学》（1807）、《逻辑学》（1812-1816）、《哲学科学百科全书》（1817）、《法哲学原理》（1821）；除此之外，《历史哲学讲演录》、《美学讲演录》、《宗教哲学讲演录》、《哲学史讲演录》等课堂讲授录也是黑格尔哲学的重要呈现。

"The Phenomenology of Mind" in the original German. First published in 1807. According to Wikipedia: "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher, and with Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, one of the creators of German idealism. Hegel influenced writers of widely varying positions, including both his admirers (Bauer, Feuerbach, Marx, Bradley, Dewey, Sartre, Küng, Kojève, Žižek), and his detractors (Schelling, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Peirce, Russell). Hegel developed a comprehensive philosophical framework, or "system", to account in an integrated and developmental way for the relation of mind and nature, the subject and object of knowledge, and psychology, the state, history, art, religion, and philosophy. In particular, he developed a concept of mind or spirit that manifested itself in a set of contradictions and oppositions that it ultimately integrated and united, such as those between nature and freedom, and immanence and transcendence, without eliminating either pole or reducing it to the other. His influential conceptions are of speculative logic or "dialectic," "absolute idealism," "Spirit," negativity, sublation (Aufhebung in German), the "Master/Slave" dialectic, "ethical life," and the importance of history." --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.