This book deals with the critical function of absolute spirit within Hegel´s »Phenomenology of Spirit«. The first section is an analysis of the three chapters on spirit which focuses on the development of forms of normativity, while the second section reconstructs Hegel’s chapters on religion and absolute knowing. Absolute spirit, as a result of its core structure of reflexivity, enacts instances of self-understanding, through which the question of how to reflect critically on social normativity can be answered.weiterlesen