Hegel: The Labor of the Negative

An eight-chapter guided course on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831): the Tübingen trio with Hölderlin and Schelling, the Phenomenology finished as Napoleon took Jena, the highway of despair and the labor of the negative, sense-certainty's collapse into the universal, the master-slave struggle and the labor that frees the bondsman, being, nothing and becoming, aufheben and the nodal line, the Philosophy of Right and the owl of Minerva, the cunning of reason and world-historical individuals, beauty as the Idea in sensuous form, and the inheritance from Marx and Kierkegaard to Kojève. An independent critical listening course: every claim is labeled to its source, with Hegel's own words, the Kant and Schelling context, and later reception kept on separate shelves throughout. Read scope is exact: selections from each work, with the Phenomenology's Lordship and Bondage section read near-full; no work is claimed in full. Hegel's remark about Buddhism is quoted as his view and flagged as a secondhand caricature; the course's own closing comparison is one labeled passage of orientation, not scholarship. Quotations are short and attributed; copyrights in the translations remain with their translators and publishers, and this release grants no rights in those texts. Narrated by Tara, an AI voice. Original narration and commentary CC0 1.0 Universal.

Sources
Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. J. B. Baillie (1910), vol 1: https://archive.org/details/cu31924097557171 and vol 2: https://archive.org/details/cu31924091023832 - selections: Preface core, Introduction core, Sense-Certainty core, Lordship and Bondage near-full, Unhappy Consciousness opening
The Logic of Hegel (Encyclopaedia Logic), trans. William Wallace (1873): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55108 - selections: §§79-88, §96, §§108-111
Elements of the Philosophy of Right, trans. S. W. Dyde (1896): https://archive.org/details/cu31924014578979 - selections: Author's Preface near-full, Introduction on the will
Lectures on the Philosophy of History, trans. J. Sibree (1857): https://archive.org/details/lecturesonphilos00hege_0 - selections: Introduction core
The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Art, trans. Bernard Bosanquet (1886): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46330 - selections
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Hegel" (Paul Redding): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/ - biography verification only, not quoted

Chapters
00:00 Chapter 1: The Latecomer
06:53 Chapter 2: The Highway of Despair
14:31 Chapter 3: This, I, We
22:50 Chapter 4: Master and Slave
31:02 Chapter 5: The Logic of Becoming
38:55 Chapter 6: Freedom Made Real
46:11 Chapter 7: Reason in History, Beauty in Art
54:16 Chapter 8: The Inheritance