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In this debut novel, the multi-talented Georg Hegel gives an edge-of-your-seat, no-holds-barred, rip-roaring ride through the dark and mysterious caverns of the criminal mind. This romp-em-stop-em tale traces the journey of a strapping, curious, yet fickle young man named Spirit (Geist in the original German) as his godlike intelligence leads him from the rough-and-tumble, animalistic mean streets of an unknown Caribbean island, through the French Revolution, to the clean and well-ordered cities of present-day Japan. (For a fuller account of the book's enigmatic conclusion, plus some alternate endings and commentary, see Alexandre Kojève's stunning compendium.) Many readers may know Georg Hegel as a humble high-school teacher and occasional babysitter, but make no mistake: Hegel is a masterful storyteller. In the Phenomenology of Spirit (popularly called P.O.S.), he thrills us with the twists and turns of a deeply complex character's development, stopping on the way to wow us with fights-to-the-death, to illuminate the perils and attraction of religious fanaticism, and even to weigh the pros and cons of arcana such as phrenological metaphysics and systematic racism. Like so many of our best novels, Hegel's narrative is of course completely implausible, yet even when the story stretches the bounds of believability, its constant movement from one point of view to another—followed so often by a graceful synthesis of the two—makes Hegel's P.O.S. one of the best reads of 2007.

>> No.7197948

>>7197940
9.7/10. Nice.

>> No.7198004

>>7197940
top smile

>> No.7198009

>>7197948
>>7198004

stale pasta, lurk more

>> No.7198622

>>7198009
It's 9.5/10 every time I read it.
>phrenological metaphysics
That section on phrenology would be even more perfect if phrenology had anything supporting its basic propositions. It's a good thing his point is that skills don't mean anything.

>> No.7198668

>>7197940
> leads him from the rough-and-tumble, animalistic mean streets of an unknown Caribbean island
Who would ever leave such a paradise? Spirit fucked up tbh fams

>> No.7198685

>>7198668
Haiti during the revolution wasn't that great tbh fam, especially if you were a non-Polish white

>> No.7199040

>>7197940

>inb4 Hegel is a mysoginistic faggot

>> No.7199063

Kierkegaard had the last word on Hegel.

Motion cannot be introduced into a system that starts with the immediate. An existential system is not possible for anyone except God.

Read the Concluding Unscientific Postscript for a better explanation of Hegel's error.

>> No.7199099 [DELETED] 

>>7199063
Is there any way I could talk to you? My skype is inb4inb4inb4.

>> No.7199853

>>7199063
Read my diary tbh's postscript for a better explanation for your mom's vagina.

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>>7197940
Too Hyphenated For Me To Read Personally I'm A Capitalist