Do We Need Hegel? (Reader’s Notes to the Ukrainian Translation of “The Phenomenology of Spirit”)

Abstract

The article considers the Ukrainian translation of the latest edition of Hegel's work “The Phenomenology of Spirit” (2019). The analysis focuses on the conformity of this translation with the generally accepted world requirements and norms that put forward the translation and publication of classical philosophical texts. The historical circumstances of the appearance of “Phänomenologie des Geistes” (1807) are briefly considered, as well as the history of its editing and republishing in the 19-20th cent., and it is shown that without this history any translation cannot be considered as acceptable.

Keywords

• georg wilhelm friedrich hegel
• the phenomenology of spirit
• university of jena
• johannes schulze
• critical editions
• georg lasson
• johannes hoffmeister
• translations
• formal translation requirements