A Hegel reading list
Primary texts
There are four English translations of The Phenomenology of Spirit.
J. B. Baillie 1910/1931 (very antiquated and in many ways inaccurate, but helpful thanks to its more attractive literary qualities)
A. V. Miller 1977
Michael Inwood 2018 (effectively a revision of Miller)
Terry Pinkard 2018
There are three English translations of The Science of Logic. None is ideal, but each has its uses. Johnston and Struthers; A. V. Miller; George di Giovanni.
There are two English translations of Encyclopaedia I: Science of Logic. Wallace; Geraets/Suchting/Harris.
There are two English translations of Encyclopaedia II: Philosophy of Nature. Miller; Petry.
There is one English translation of Encyclopaedia III: Philosophy of Spirit. Wallace rev. Inwood. There is an additional English translation of III: Philosophy of Subjective Spirit. Petry.
There are two English translations of Philosophy of Right. Knox; Nisbet. Nisbet is to be preferred.
Lectures on Philosophy of History; Lectures on History of Philosophy; Lectures on Philosophy of Religion; Lectures on Aesthetics; etc.
Recommended secondary readings: introductory
G. R. G. Mure, The Philosophy of Hegel 1965.
Charles Taylor, Hegel 1975.
Charles Taylor, Hegel and Modern Society 1979.
Michael Inwood, Hegel 1983.
Recommended secondary readings: advanced
Michael B. Foster, Die Geschichte als Schicksal des Geistes in der Hegelschen Philosophie 1929.
G. R. G. Mure, An Introduction to Hegel 1940.
Dieter Henrich, Hegel im Kontext 1971/1988/2010. (Collection of essays)
Michael Theunissen, Sein und Schein: die kritische Funktion der hegelschen Logik 1978.
See also the discussion proceeding from Sein und Schein in Hans Friedrich Fulda, Rolf-Peter Horstmann and Michael Theunissen, Kritische Darstellung der Metaphysik 1980.
Karen Ng, Hegel’s Concept of Life 2020.
Recommended secondary readings: Phenomenology of Spirit
Jean Hyppolite, Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. Samuel Cherniak and John Heckman 1974 (French original: Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel 1946).
Hans Friedrich Fulda, Das Problem einer Einleitung in Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik 1965/1975.
Robert Stern, Routledge Guidebook to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit 2001/2013.
Ludwig Siep, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. Daniel Smyth 2014 (German original: Der Weg der Phänomenologie des Geistes: Ein einführender Kommentar zu Hegels ‘Differenzschrift’ und ‘Phänomenologie des Geistes’ 2000.
H. S. Harris, Hegel: Phenomenology and System 1995.
Recommended secondary readings: logic
G. R. G. Mure, A Study of Hegel’s Logic 1950.
Georg Sans, Die Realisierung des Begriffs 2004.
Recommended secondary readings: political philosophy
Franz Rosenzweig, Hegel und der Staat 1920 (Suhrkamp edn 2010).
M. B. Foster, The Political Philosophies of Plato and Hegel 1935.
Recommended secondary readings: legacy
John Edward Toews, Hegelianism: The Path Toward Dialectical Humanism, 1805–1841 1980.