--- In hegel@yahoogroups.com, "philip_ohanlon" <philip_ohanlon@...> wrote:

>
> Dear List
>
> There are a good many very excellent commentaries to the Phenomenology of Spirit. However, I need an equally good guide to help me through the logic. Can anybody offer any suggestions? The more detailed the better - something like the equivalent to Harris's guide to the Phenomenology would be great.
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> many thanks for any suggestions
> Best
> Phil
>

If there is such a book in English then I would like a copy of it as well.

The only commentary on the SL that I've come across is Bob's book [Robert M. Wallace: _darn, I don't remember the title--something like God, Reality and Freedom.]

The book is in six chapters. The first two chapters are introductory. The third chapter is a quite detailed commentary on the Quality chapter of the Being section. In this chapter Bob really makes an effort to make things accessible to a reader starting at ground-zero in regard to the SL (as I was when I first read the chapter). He then pretty much skips the Quantity chapter, and deals with the Measure chapter quite briefly.

The fourth chapter deals with the essence section, dealing with the first very difficult parts in some detail, but here Bob isn't any longer too interested in going out of his way for the novice. He skips the middle part then deals, again in detail, with the last part.

In the fifth chapter dealing with the final volume, he pretty much skips the first part. He deals with most of the rest, although here, for some reason or other, especailly towards the end, he starts using the Enc. Logic.

The sixth chapter deals with Hegel's system as a whole and shows how it is rooted in the Logic.

But anyway Bob's book got me through the SL (even if it did take me a few years). What makes the book so valuable is that Bob always sticks very closely to the text. So one really can't read Bob's book in lieu of the SL but rather only while reading the SL along with it.

John