THE EXOTERIC AND THE ESOTERIC IN HEGEL'S DIALECTIC^†

Much of the following material is taken from my lecture notes on Hegel which are derived from a number of sources. I would, however, like to acknowledge my general and substantial debt to the following authors: Nicolai Hartmann, Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus (Berlin, 1960); Jean Hyppolite. Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel, 2 Volumes (Paris, 1946); Alexandre Kojève, Introduction à la lecture de Hegel (Paris, 1947). Ail translations in the following text, unless otherwise noted, are my own.