What is a classic? Sometimes it happens that we give this name to a work that is already, so to speak, tamed, domesticated and digested by tradition, a work which, because of their universal acceptance and their conversion into incontrovertible model, has lost all problematic character and it has become a cliché, a monument of cultural topos we inhabit and that, precisely because it raises our admiration. But there is another concept of the classical less stilted, which arises from the common language to some experience of the historicity of some works: "classic does not designate a quality attributable to certain historical phenomena, but an outstanding way of being historical: classic is what is preserved because it means himself and plays himself, he says, because, in a way that is not a statement about something missing, a mere witness to something that requires, in turn, an interpretation but it says something in each case the respective present as if expressly say to the "according to the statement known Gadamer. This is the spirit of this collection of classics of philosophy: so call works or authors whose reading can not be taken for canceled, and few works comply more strictly the requirement that the Phenomenology of Spirit Hegel: a true epic reason, in addition to summarizing the adventures and misadventures of historical Western culture as the efforts of the reason incarnate in time, intends to present thematically and systematically as the experience of all consciousness facing the challenge of learning illustrated.

germinal work of all thought of Hegel, Phenomenology is also a compendium of all before her philosophy, seen from the speculative summit of idealism, and an intellectual program, even his fiercest critics, has found in his posterity compliance and confirmation that guarantee perpetual youth, that is, the fact of being a writing that is yet to read and it has yet to deliver its best results.
The work to make this possible has been delivered with enthusiasm and an unusual dedication, Manuel Jiménez Redondo, accredited translator of philosophical and knowledgeable in depth of all the meanderings and complexities of a text works which has been used thoroughly for readability anyone reader who wants to be at the height of the task that Hegel described as "the hard work of concept."