黑格爾（1770-1831）是德國唯心主義的集大成者，西方哲學史上最偉大的哲學傢之一。求學於圖賓根大學（與謝林、荷爾德林為同窗），先後任教於耶拿大學、海德堡大學、柏林大學。主要著作有《費希特和謝林的哲學體係的差彆》（1801）、《精神現象學》（1807）、《邏輯學》（1812-1816）、《哲學科學百科全書》（1817）、《法哲學原理》（1821）；除此之外，《曆史哲學講演錄》、《美學講演錄》、《宗教哲學講演錄》、《哲學史講演錄》等課堂講授錄也是黑格爾哲學的重要呈現。

"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.