Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The real is rational: Spirit realises itself in history.
Phenomenology of Spirit essential
The journey of consciousness from mere perception to absolute knowing. Contains the famous master-slave dialectic. A very difficult book, even for specialists.
Science of Logic
The heart of the system: the movement of concepts themselves (being, nothing, becoming...). Not yet in our corpus.
Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences essential
A summary of his whole system in numbered paragraphs, for his lectures. The "additions" (Zusätze) added in 1840 by the editor Henning come from students' notes, not from his pen.
Elements of the Philosophy of Right essential
Right, morality, family, civil society, state, history. The preface contains "what is rational is actual" and the owl of Minerva. The "additions" (Zusätze) were added in 1833 by Eduard Gans from students' notes.
Lectures on the Philosophy of History essential
Not a book by Hegel: lectures published after his death by Gans (1837) and then by his son Karl Hegel (1840), mixing his lecture notes with students' notebooks from several years. "The cunning of reason" and "history as a slaughter-bench" come from there.
Lectures on Aesthetics, on the Philosophy of Religion, on the History of Philosophy
Also edited after his death from lecture notes. Not yet in our corpus.