Spirit's Philosophical Bildung: Image and Rhetoric in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Science of Logic in Bloomington, MN

This work focuses on the role played by rhetoric and images in Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit
, and in the transition to his
Science of Logic
. Daniel Horace Fernald argues that the rhetoric and imagery of the
Phenomenology
constitute the work's substance. His conclusion shows the entire
to be an
aporia
, an impasse designed to teach the central lesson that the
True
, which is the
Whole
, is not to be found in phenomenal experience alone. Understanding the structure of
is essential in the transition to
.