This work focuses on the role played by rhetoric and images in Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit
, and in the transition to his
Science of Logic
. Daniel Horace Fernald argues that the rhetoric and imagery of the
Phenomenology
constitute the work's substance. His conclusion shows the entire
to be an
aporia
, an impasse designed to teach the central lesson that the
True
, which is the
Whole
, is not to be found in phenomenal experience alone. Understanding the structure of
is essential in the transition to
.