H.S. Harris - Hegel's Development: Towards the Sunlight 1770-1801

http://pi.library.yorku.ca/dspace/handle/10315/883

Cruisin' Amazon, I was happy to find out that H.S. Harris' 'Hegel's Development: Toward the Sunlight 1770-1801' (Clarendon Press, 1972) on the young Hegel is available, though at a price with might take some dialectical leaps to transcend.  Several years back, before I started shopping online haha, I was on the lookout for a fine copy as well as of the follow-up 'Hegel's Development: Night Thoughts (Jena 1801-1806)' (Clarendon Press, 1983), but to no avail.  I thought Harris especially would provide good insights into the development of Hegel's 'Phanomenologie des Geistes.'

http://www.hackettpublishing.com/philosophy/hegel-s-ladder

I recommend obtaining H.S. Harris' two volume 'Hegel's Ladder' (Hackett Publishing Company, 1997) on 'Phanomenologie des Geistes' itself, which is the most comprehensive study that has appeared.  Essential reading for the study of Hegel's philosophy.  Its price also takes a li'l Aufhebung, but well worth it. 

http://www.hackettpublishing.com/philosophy/hegel-phenomenology-and-system

Also worth getting is his 'Hegel: Phenomenology and System' (1995), which is a primer of sorts. 

The first thing I read by H.S. Harris was his introduction for the English translation of Hegel's essay 'The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy' (SUNY Press, 1977).  Very good introduction, makes Hegel accessible, and ya learn some good stuff 'bout Kant, Fichte, and Schelling etc 'long the way. 

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-278-friedrich-holderlin.aspx

Not related to H.S. Harris, but I also recommend Thomas Pfau ed./Friedrich Holderlin: Essays and Letters on Theory (SUNY Press, 1987), very important for distinguishing Holderlin from Hegel, who he helped and influenced in their youth.  Holderlin's thinking is more anarchic, skeptical, and perhaps pursuant of "absolute negativity" more than his friend.  Hegel's eventual assertion "The real is the rational, and the rational is the real." even in nonpolitical senses, to Holderlin, would've seemed fraudulent on at least three levels or four, or more ;).

Kojin Karatani lecture

Karatani succinctly critiques Marx's idea of social formation based on modes of production rather than on modes of exchange.  Interesting but not new propositions such as Marx was an anarchist (Lecture 2.6, 4:40) and Hegel was an ideologist par excellence of the superpower nation-state (Lecture 2.8, 3:03), and a re-presentation of Kant as an idealist revolutionary exemplar of the world republic (Lecture 2.8, 0:07).  However, the world republic remains necessarily "transcendent" in his point that this Kantian categorical imperative somehow imbuing the "federation of nations to contain nations" beginning with the United Nations may be realized in "a higher form" after some catastrophe otherwise disappear in the continuing devastation wrought by capitalist states.  In other words, the regulative Idea is retroactively transcendent in its proactive immanence.  And this is an inverted view of what's been the historical experience.  He points to possible intra-State revolutions via inter-nation-state revolutionary battles and their divesting of state sovereignty impelled by "movement from below," by this "gradual process of simultaneous revolution."  In this scenario, although divestment of the State and of capitalism may very well go hand in hand with bottom-up revolutionary gradualism, this being the realization of some higher form of socialism, the Hegelian "cunning of reason" may return to produce thus to politico-economically extract only the most human regulative exchanges. 

Check out his insightful books.  Available are: Transcritique: On Kant and Marx (2003), Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money (1995), Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (1993).