A bold new understanding of what, after Hegel, came to be called 'subjectivity' arose from this work, and it was instrumental in the formation of later philosophies, such as existentialism, Marxism, and American pragmatism, each of which reacted to Hegel's radical claims in different ways. Like Kant before him, Hegel offered up a systematic account of the nature of knowledge, the influence of society and history on claims to knowledge, and the social character of human agency itself. In it, Hegel proposed an arresting and novel picture of the relation of mind to world and of people to each other. Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most influential texts in the history of modern philosophy. It is Hegel's grandest experiment, changing our vision of the world and the very nature of the philosophical enterprise. 'Hegel's Phenomenology was written, so the story goes, on the eve of Napoleon's destruction of the Holy Roman Empire and at the beginning of the German 'Wars of Liberation.' The book itself is no less dramatic or revolutionary.
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