Abstract
Abstract This paper tries to make sense of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in terms of a dialectical concept of education. The Phenomenology may be read not only as a philosophical work but also as a literary work which brings the German idealist idea of Bildung, or formation, to its apotheosis. The interpretation is limited to the Preface of the book. By way of literary theory I try to make good the claim that the Phenomenology naturally gives itself to an educative interpretation. After having pointed to some of Hegel's possible literary inspirations, I go on to suggest that contradictory experiences of Bildung are resolved within a background of communicative knowledge. The roles of the different dramatis personae in the Phenomenology are determined in the setting of philosophy as the way of presentation.
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