Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-158) and index.

Introduction -- Hegel's philosophy of subjective spirit -- Kant and Fichte on self-consciousness -- Self-consciousness as the truth of cons ciousness -- The universal self-consciousness of spirit -- Objective sp irit : the philosophy of right -- Right as objectified will -- Abstract right -- The moral standpoint -- Civil society -- Ethical life -- The philosophy of history -- Art and religion -- The religious function of art -- The ethical function of art -- Christianity and the problem of ' positivity' -- Hegel's account of faith -- Faith and the Enlightenment -- Hegel's critique of religious representational thought -- Philosophy : the metaphysics of freedom -- Logic or speculative philosophy -- Heg el's critique of Spinoza's theory of substance -- Hegel's dialectical m ethod -- The idea -- Conclusion.