"Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction."-Terry Eagleton<BR><BR>"Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today...It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him."-Colin MacCabe<BR><BR>"Fredric Jameson preserved and extended the legacy of Marxism for a generation of intellectuals."-Benjamin Kunkel, London Review of Books<BR><BR>In this major new study, philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers an innovative reading of a book that forms part of the bedrock of modern Western thought Hegers Phenomenology of Spirit.<BR><BR>Whereas other writers have interpreted the Phenomenology as a rigidly dosed system, Jameson discovers it to be a more fluid, open-ended work. Hegel's mind is revealed to be a less systematic mechanism than normally thought, one whose ideas never solidify into pure abstractions. The conclusion of the Phenomenology, on the aftermath of the French Revolution, is examined as a provisional stalemate between the political and the socialùa situation from which Jameson draws important lessons for our own age.