Hegel’s Phenomenology, Part 2The publication in 1807 of Georg Wilhelm Frederich Hegels Phanomenologie des Geistes (translated alternately as Phenomenology of Mind or Phenomenology of Spirit) marked the beginning of the modern era in philosophy. Hegels remarkable insights formed the basis for what eventually became the Existentialist movement. Yet the Phenomenology remains one of the most difficult and forbidding works in the canon of philosophical literature.