This book contains the text of Heidegger's 1930-31 university lectures on the opening chapters of Hegel's first major work. Published in Germany only in 1980, these lectures represent Heidegger's most sustained treatment of Hegel. However, they are important as much for an understanding of Heidegger, since many of the central ideas of Being and Time appear here as well. The translators have done a marvelous job of rendering Heidegger's often convoluted prose eminently readable. There is a glossary of important and/or difficult German terms; the German editor's informative epilogue is included. Essential for academic philosophy collections.