Refashioning the Spirit. Michael Inwood’s New Translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology

Preview: In March 2018 Oxford University Press will publish a new English translation of Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit. It was translated anew, annotated and commented by Michael Inwood, a renowned authority in the field, author of Hegel (1983), Hegel’s Dictionary (1992) and A Commentary on Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind (2010). We thought this was a very good occasion to talk about this major work in the history of philosophy, the challenges faced by its translators and the nature of translating philosophical texts in general.