The first volume, published in 2008 (GW 25,1), contains the lecture notes from the 1822 and 1825 lectures that Hegel delivered based on the first edition of his Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse (1817). The second volume (published in 2011) includes the texts from the 1827/28 lectures (the lecture notes by Stolzenberg, with variants from the lecture notes of Erdmann and Walter), which Hegel presented based on the second edition of the Enzyklopädie (1827).
Furthermore, the volume contains as supplement the “Additions” from Volume 7 of the Gesammelte Werke (1845), edited also based on lecture notes. These materials complete the first part of the philosophy of spirit. The third volume now presents the Editorial Report and the Notes, which comprehensively provide information about the edited manuscripts and the vast historical and contemporary materials that Hegel critically processed into an independent concept, which he counterposed to the emerging tendencies of a positivistic and reductionist scientific development.
Simon Gros 
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