Hegel’s Phenomenology of the We

Every reader of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit has puzzled over the references to the we and the related notion of the for us which occur throughout the text. Hegel claims that this we contributes a way of looking at the matter which serves as the means whereby the succession of experiences through which consciousness passes is raised to a scientific progression. Hegel’s Phenomenology of the We is the first book-length study of the role of the we in Hegel’s Phenomenology. It provides a comprehensive yet detailed analysis of the we’s role in the text and contains a useful appendix documenting the occurrences of the we in the text.