This a list of some of the key works that for over more than the last century have played a role in shaping scholarly discussions of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, together with a limited selection of some more contemporary works on the subject.
Appel, K. and Auinger, T.. Eine Lektüre von Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes. Frankfurt am Main and New York: P. Lang, 2009.
Baum, M. Die Entstehung der Hegelschen Dialektik. The Author's Habilitations-schrift, Universität Gesamthochschule Siegen, 1980/81. Bonn: Bouvier, 1986.
Baum, M. and Pöggeler, O.. Hegel: Einführung in seine Philosophie. Freiburg im Breisgau and München: Alber, 1977.
Becker, W. Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes: Eine Interpretation. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1971.
Beiser, F. C. The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Beiser, F. C. German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781–1801. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Beiser, F. C. Hegel. New York and London: Routledge, 2005.
Bloch, E. Subjekt-Objekt: Erläuterungen zu Hegel. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1951.
Bonsiepen, W. “Einleitung.” In Wessels, H.-F., Clairmont, H., and Bonsiepen, W., eds., Phänomenologie des Geistes. Hamburg: F. Meiner Verlag, 1988, ix–lxiii.
Bowman, B. Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Bowman, B. Sinnliche Gewissheit: Zur systematischen Vorgeschichte eines Problems des deutschen Idealismus. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2003.
Brandom, R. Tales of the Mighty Dead: Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of Intentionality. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Bubner, R. The Innovations of Idealism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Collins, A. B. Hegel's Phenomenology: The Dialectical Justification of Philosophy's First Principles. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013.
Denker, A. and Vater, M. G., eds. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: New Critical Essays. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2003.
Derrida, J. Glas. Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.
Dove, K. R. “Hegel's Phenomenological Method.” Review of Metaphysics 23, no. 4(1970): 615–41.
Emundts, D. and Horstmann, R.-P.. G. W. F. Hegel: Eine Einführung. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2002.
Fischer, K. Hegels Leben, Werke und Lehre. Heidelberg: Winter, 1901.
Flay, J. C. Hegel's Quest for Certainty. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1984.
Förster, E. The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy: A Systematic Reconstruction. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Forster, M. N. Hegel's Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Franks, P. W. All or Nothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Fulda, H. F. G. W. F. Hegel. München: C. H. Beck, 2003.
Fulda, H. F. and Henrich, D.. Materialien zu Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1973.
Habermas, J. Knowledge and Human Interests. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 1971.
Habermas, J. Theory and Practice. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 1973.
Halbig, C., Quante, M., and Siep, L., eds. Hegels Erbe. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2004.
Harris, H. S. Hegel: Phenomenology and System. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Pub. Co., 1995.
Harris, H. S. Hegel's Development: Toward the Sunlight, 1770–1801. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
Harris, H. S. Hegel's Ladder. 2 vols. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Pub. Co., 1997.
Hartmann, K., ed. Die Ontologische Option: Studien zu Hegels Propädeutik, Schellings Hegel-Kritik und Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 1976.
Haym, R. and Rosenberg, H.. Hegel und seine Zeit: Vorlesungen über Entstehung und Entwickelung, Wesen und Wert der Hegel'schen Philosophie. Leipzig: W. Heims, 1927.
Heinrichs, J. Die Logik der Phänomenologie des Geistes. Bonn: Bouvier, 1974.
Henrich, D. Hegel im Kontext. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2010.
Henrich, D. and Pacini, D. S.. Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Horstmann, R.-P. Die Grenzen der Vernunft: Eine Untersuchung zu Zielen und Motiven des Deutschen Idealismus. Frankfurt am Main: A. Hain, 1991.
Houlgate, S. An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.
Houlgate, S. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reader's Guide. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2012.
Hyppolite, J. Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1974.
Hyppolite, J. Studies on Marx and Hegel. New York: Basic Books, 1969.
Kaehler, K. E. and Marx, W.. Die Vernunft in Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes. Frankfurt am Main: V. Klostermann, 1992.
Kainz, H. P. Hegel's Phenomenology, Part I: Analysis and Commentary. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1976.
Kainz, H. P. Hegel's Phenomenology, Part II: The Evolution of Ethical and Religious Consciousness to the Absolute Standpoint. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1983.
Kimmerle, G. Sein und Selbst: Unters. zur kategorialen Einheit von Vernunft u. Geist in Hegels “Phänomenologie des Geistes”. Bonn: Bouvier, 1978.
Köhler, D. and Pöggeler, O., eds. G. W. F. Hegel: Phänomenologie des Geistes. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1998.
Kojève, A. and Queneau, R., eds. Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit. New York: Basic Books, 1969.
Labarrière, P.-J. La Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel: introduction à une lecture. Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1979.
Labarrière, P.-J. Structures et mouvement dialectique dans la Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel. Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1968.
Lauer, Q. A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. New York: Fordham University Press, 1976.
Loewenberg, J. Hegel's Phenomenology: Dialogues on the Life of the Mind. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1965.
MacIntyre, A. C. “Hegel on Faces and Skulls.” In MacIntyre, , ed., Hegel: A Collection of Critical Essays. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1972, 219–36.
Marx, W. Das Selbstbewusstsein in Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes. Frankfurt am Main: V. Klostermann, 1986.
Marx, W. and Heath, P., trans. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Commentary Based on the Preface and Introduction. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
McDowell, J. H. Having the World in View: Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Merleau-Ponty, M. “Hegel's Existentialism.” In Sense and Non-Sense. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1964, 63–70.
Moyar, D. Hegel's Conscience. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Moyar, D. The Oxford Handbook of Hegel. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Moyar, D. and Quante, M., eds. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Neuhouser, F. Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Pinkard, T. P. Hegel: A Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Pinkard, T. P. Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Pinkard, T. P. “Hegel's Phenomenology and Logic: An Overview.” In Ameriks, K., ed.,The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 161–79.
Pippin, R. B. Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Pippin, R. B. Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Pöggeler, O. Hegels Idee einer Phänomenologie des Geistes. Freiburg, München, and Breisgau: Alber, 1973.
Redding, P. Hegel's Hermeneutics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Riedel, M. System und Geschichte: Studien zum historischen Standort von Hegels Philosophie. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1973.
Rockmore, T. Cognition: An Introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1997.
Russon, J. Infinite Phenomenology: The Lessons of Hegel's Science of Experience. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2016.
Russon, J. Reading Hegel's Phenomenology. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2004.
Russon, J. The Self and its Body in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Sedgwick, S. S. Hegel's Critique of Kant: From Dichotomy to Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Shklar, J. N. Freedom and Independence: A Study of the Political Ideas of Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Siep, L. Anerkennung als Prinzip der praktischen Philosophie: Unters. zu Hegels Jenaer Philosophie d. Geistes. Freiburg im Breisgau and München: Alber, 1979.
Siep, L. Der Weg der “Phänomenologie des Geistes”: ein einführender Kommentar zu Hegels “Differenzschrift” und zur “Phänomenologie des Geistes”. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2000.
Siep, L. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Solomon, R. C. In the Spirit of Hegel: A Study of G. W. F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Stern, R. The Routledge Guidebook to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Abingdon and New York:Routledge, 2013.
Stewart, J. The Unity of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Systematic Interpretation. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2000.
Taylor, C. Hegel. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Toews, J. E. Hegelianism: The Path Toward Dialectical Humanism, 1805–1841. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Vieweg, K. and Welsch, W.. Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes: Ein kooperativer Kommentar zu einem Schlüsselwerk der Moderne. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008.
Wahl, J. A. Le malheur de la conscience dans la philosophie de Hegel. Paris: Rieder, 1929.
Westphal, K. R. Hegel's Epistemology: A Philosophical Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Pub. Co., 2003.
Westphal, K. R. History and Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1979.
Westphal, K. R., ed. The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Westphal, K. R., Method and Speculation in Hegel's Phenomenology. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1982.