1. Three contemporary studies of Hegel.- a. J. Hyppolite.- b. Theodor Litt.- c. G. R. G. Mure.- d. Summary.- 2. The situation of this study.- a. The purpose.- b. The title.- c. The method.- I “Vorstellung” and Thought.- I The Description of Vorstellung.- 1. The meaning of meaning.- 2. Thought as Vorstellung.- a. “Das mittlere Element”.- b. Contingent and abstract.- c. Space and time.- d. Meaning as “Meinung”.- 3. Thought and Vorstellung.- a. Transition to formal thought.- b. “Verstand” and “Vernunft”.- c. The return to Vorstellung.- II The Place of Vorstellung in the Philosophy of Spirit.- 1. Meaning and place.- 2. The dialectic in nature and spirit.- a. Soul and nature.- b. Space and time.- The double character of time (47) — The appearance of space (48) — The appearance of time (49).- c. Place.- 3 Intuition (Anschauung).- a. The place of intuition.- b. The totality of intuition.- c. Attention (Aufmerksamkeit).- 4. Vorstellung.- a. Recapitulation.- b. Transition to Vorstellung.- c. Recollection (Erinnerung).- Temporality of the subject (58) — Verification: the synthesis of Vorstellung (59).- d. Imagination (Einbildungskraft).- Recapitulation (60) — The syntheses of imagination (62) — Verbal language (63) — Dimensions of time (64).- e. Memory (Gedächtnis).- f. Transition to thought.- III The Logic of Essence.- 1. Vorstellung and essence.- 2. The place of essence.- a. The two principles of division in the Logic.- The three “Books” (71) — Objective and subjective logic (72) — Externality within the Logic (74).- b. The logic of being.- Dialectic without relations (76) — Intuition and indifference (77) — The totality of being (78).- c. Transition to essence.- Essence and common sense (79) — Transition as reflection (80) — Double sense of reflection (83) — Language and the double categories of essence (84).- d. Development to actuality.- The growth of a totality (87) — Verification and recognition (88).- e. Transition to the notion.- 3. Essence as reflection into itself.- a. Essential and unessential: “Schein”.- The presupposition of being (94) — The positing of being (95).- b. Positing reflection.- Positing and presupposing (97) — The “in so far” (99).- c. External reflection.- The origin of Vorstellung (101) — Thought as historical (102).- d. Contradiction.- The principle of contradiction (toy) — The final stage of thought (107).- e. Ground.- Self-grounding of the totality (111) — The nature and element of spirit (114) — Transition (115).- II Logic and System.- IV Development toward System.- 1. The problem re-stated.- 2. Dualism and system.- 3. The “Jugendschriften” and origins of the system.- a. Tübingen, Berne, Frankfurt.- First attitude to positivity (124) — Second attitude to positivity (125) — Reconciliation (126) — “Glauben und Sein” (127) — “Systemfragment” (128).- b. Publications at Jena.- Transition to philosophy (129) — Philosophy as system (129) — Scepticism, common sense, and philosophy (131) — Attitude to Fichte and Schelling (“Differenzschrift”) (133) — Attitude to Kant (“Glauben und Wissen”) (135).- c. The Jena “systems”.- Their content (137) — The principles of division (138) — Conclusions (141).- d. Origin of the Phenomenology.- V The System in the Element of Vorstellung.- 1. Recapitulation.- 2. Absolute spirit in the form of Vorstellung.- a. Transition to absolute spirit.- Finite and absolute spirit (151) — Identity of subjective and objective (153) — Identity of form and content (155).- b. Development in absolute spirit.- Religion as development (156) — Temporal development (158).- c. The “other” of thought.- The three elements of religion (159) — Relation to the duality of essence (162).- d. Spirit as result and as origin.- “Offenbarung” and “Erhebung” (165) — Logic and Phenomenology (166).- 3. System in the form of Vorstellung.- a. The notion of system.- b. The three elements.- c. The element of thought.- Transition in thought and from thought (172) — The ontological argument (174) — Relation to essence (176) — Result and origin (177).- d. The element of Vorstellung.- The “other” of thought (179) — The need of reconciliation (180) — Transition to spirit (182).- e. The element of spirit.- The situation of philosophy (184) — The final identity (187).- f. System and history.- VI The System in the Element of Thought: Conclusion.- 1. Circularity and criticism.- 2. System and syllogism.- a. The doctrine of the syllogism.- b. The triad of syllogisms.- c. The mediating syllogism.- 3. The place of the Logic in the system.- a. System.- The need of system (203) — The thought of totality (203) — The transitions (204).- b. Logic.- Ambiguity and autonomy (205) — Explanation and verification (205) — Thought and experience (206).- c. Place.- The situation of man (207) — Man’s “element” (207) — The history of man’s thought (209).