'Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic'

By Karen Ng, reviewed by Gerad Gentry, at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

"On the one hand stand works like Robert Pippin's Hegel of 1989 (including the less epistemologically-restricted variation of his 2019 Hegel), for whom Kant's original synthetic unity of apperception in the first Critique becomes a touchstone for post-Kantian idealism's response to the (perceived) internal failings of Kant's idealism. On the other hand stand accounts like Eckart Förster's Hegel of 2011, for whom Kant's third Critique and the intuitive understanding is of chief significance for the trajectory of Hegel's philosophy. Within this influential camp and between these paths, Karen Ng's book is one of the finest, offering an original defense between the two as a compelling third path. In this work, she offers a systematic defense of the concept of life as the ground of judgment and genome of Hegel's system."

See Hegel, The Philosophy of Right, and The Philosophy of History, in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 48, and (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 43.

See, also, "Immanuel Kant: Period Of The Three Critiques, at Britannica.