Cover -- Hegel -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Translators' Introduction -- NEGATIVITY. A CONFRONTATION WITH HEGEL APPROACHED FROM NEGATIVITY (1938-39, 1941) -- I. Negativity. Nothing-abyss-beyng -- 1. On Hegel -- (1) Clarification of a concern regarding the value of such a confrontation -- (2) Specification of the conceptual language that comes into play in the confrontation -- (3) Preliminary characterization of the standpoint and principle of Hegel's philosophy -- 2. At a glance -- 3. Becoming -- 4. Negativity and the "nothing" -- 5. Negativity and being-other [Anderssein] -- 6. Negativity and otherness [Andersheit] -- 7. Negativity-difference of consciousness-subject-object relationship and essence of truth -- 8. Hegel's concept of being -- 9. Hegel's absolute negativity interrogated directly about its "origin" -- 10. Hegel's negativity -- 11. Review -- 12. Negativity -- 13. The differentiation (separation) -- 14. The negative -- 15. Being and the nothing -- 16. Hegel's concept of "being" in the narrow sense ("horizon" and "guiding thread") -- 17. The "standpoint" of Hegelian philosophy is the standpoint of "absolute idealism" -- 18. The (thoughtful) pre-suppositions of Hegelian thinking -- 19. The pre-suppositions of Hegelian thinking of being in the narrow and broad sense -- 20. Review -- 21. The his tori cal confrontation and the regress to "presuppositions" -- II. The realm of inquiry of negativity -- 1. On the conceptual language -- 2. Negativity -- 3. Review -- III. The differentiation of being and beings -- 1. Differentiation as de-cision -- 2. The differentiation of being and beings -- IV. Clearing-Abyss-Nothing -- 1. The clearing (beyng) -- 2. Being: the a-byss -- 3. Beyng and nothing -- 4. A-byss and nothing and no -- 5. Beyng and nothing -- 6. "Negativity" -- 7. The nothing -- V. Hegel.

1. Essential considerations concerning the conceptual language -- 2. Hegel -- 3. "Becoming" -- 4. The pure thinking of thinking -- 5. "The higher standpoint" -- 6. Hegel's "impact" -- 7. Metaphysics -- 8. On Hegel -- 9. "The logical beginning" ("pure being") -- Appendix -- Supplement to the title page -- Supplement to I, section 1 (p.3) -- ELUCIDATION OF THE "INTRODUCTION" TO HEGEL'S "PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT" (1942) -- Preliminary consideration. On the varied role and position of the Phenomenology of Spirit within Hegel's metaphysics -- I. The grounding of the enactment of the presentation of appearing knowledge (paragraphs 1-4 of the "Introduction") -- II. The self-presentation of appearing knowledge as the course into the truth of its own essence (paragraphs 5-8 of the "Introduction") -- III. The criterion of the examination and the essence of the examination in the course of appearing knowledge (paragraphs 9-13 of the "Introduction") -- 1. The criterion-forming consciousness and the dialectical movement of the examination -- 2. Review of the previous discussion (I-III) -- 3. The experience [Er-fahren] of consciousness -- IV. The essence of the experience of consciousness and its presentation (paragraphs 14-15 of the "Introduction") -- 1. Hegel's "ontological" concept of experience -- 2. Guiding propositions to Hegel's concept of experience -- V. Absolute metaphysics (sketches for paragraph 16 of the "Introduction") -- 1. Essential considerations. Objectness and "science" -- 2. At a glance 1 -- 3. The ray of the absolute. At a glance 2 -- 4. The phenomenology of spirit -- 5. The movement -- 6. The by-play [Bei-her- spielen] -- 7. The examination -- 8. The onto-theological character -- 9. The reversal -- 10. The Germans and metaphysics -- 11. The absolute and man -- 12. Reflection-counter push-reversal -- 13. Projection and reversal.

14. Experiences as transcendental experiences -- 15. The metaphysics of Schelling and Hegel -- 16. "Phenomenology" and absoluteness -- 17. Confrontation with Hegel -- 18. Hegel (Conclusion) -- Appendix. Supplements to I-IV (paragraphs 1-15 of the "Introduction") -- 1. Dialectic -- 2. Our contribution [Zu-tat] -- 3. The reversal-properly speaking four essential moments -- 4. The experience as the essential midpoint of consciousness -- Editor's Afterword -- Translators' Notes -- German-English Glossary -- English-German Glossary.