Martin Heidegger's writings on Hegel are notoriously difficult but show an essential engagement between two of the foundational thinkers of phenomenology. Joseph Arel and Niels Feuerhahn provide a clear and careful translation of Volume 68 of the Complete Works, which is comprised of two shorter textsa treatise on negativity, and a penetrating reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. In this volume, Heidegger relates his interpretation of Hegel to his own thought on the event, taking up themes developed in Contributions to Philosophy. While many parts of the text are fragmentary in nature, these interpretations are considered some of the most significant as they bring Hegel into Heidegger's philosophical trajectory.

Joseph Arel teaches philosophy at the Northern Arizona University.

Niels Feuerhahn teaches philosophy at the University of Guelph.

Translators' Introduction

NEGATIVITY. A CONFRONTATION WITH HEGEL APPROACHED FROM NEGATIVITY (1938/39, 1941)

I. Negativity. Nothing abyss beyngII. The realm of inquiry of negativityIII. The differentiation of being and beingsIV. Clearing Abyss NothingV. HegelAppendixSupplement to the title pageSupplement to section 1

ELUCIDATION OF THE "INTRODUCTION" TO HEGEL'S "PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT"(1942)

Preliminary consideration. On the various roles and positions of the Phenomenologyof Spirit within Hegel's metaphysics

I. The grounding of the enactment of the presentation of appearing knowledge(paragraphs 1-4 of the "Introduction")

II. The self-presentation of appearing knowledge as the course into the truth of its ownessence (paragraphs 5-8 of the "Introduction")

III. The criterion of the examination and the essence of the examination in the courseof appearing knowledge (paragraphs 9-13 of the "Introduction")IV. The essence of the experience of consciousness and its presentation(paragraphs 14-15 of the "Introduction")V. Absolute metaphysics (sketches for paragraph 16 of the "Introduction")

Appendix. Supplements to I-IV (paragraph 1-15 of the "Introduction")Editor's Afterword

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