First published in 2002.

Written in 1910, this book is Volume II of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Mind, the VI of a series of seven volumes on his work.

A continuation from volume I, it contains the topics of spirit - ethical action, spirit objective, and the spirit in self-estrangement. Then develops into the area of enlightenment and superstition, freedom and terror, and then religion, and absolute knowledge.