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A Hegel Dictionary (Blackwell Philosopher Dictionaries)

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Michael Inwood's "A Hegel Dictionary" is a great resource. As an undergrad it helped helped me navigate the dense fog of Hegel's philosophy and prose. Inwood sheds light on Hegel's odd usage of seemingly standard terms, such as "negation," which under Hegel's pen bears a divergent meaning.

I was, however, disappointed to find that throughout portions of the text Inwood offers definitions of words without indicating precisely what Hegel means by the word in context. I suppose the implication is that Hegel uses the term consistently, but since Hegel's usage is quite often so bastardized, I'm wary of such assumptions. What a struggling undergrad (or grad) student needs to know is what Hegel means, here, e.g., in "The Phenomenology". Blackwell's "A Kant Dictionary" is much more helpful in this regard: it unpacks the meaning of terms in light of the conext of use. But, you take what you can get. Last time I checked, Inwood's "A Hegel Dictionary" is the only thing of its kind on the market. Thus, I recommend it (at least until a better one comes out - perhaps a new edition?).