This book focuses on the interpretations of Hegel's that have proved influential over the past decades. Current readers of Hegel's face an abundance of interpretive literature devoted to this difficult text and confront a plethora of different philosophical presuppositions, research strategies and hermeneutic efforts.To enable a better orientation within the interpretative landscape, the essays in this volume summarize, contextualize and critically comment on the issues and currents in contemporary scholarship. There is a common set of three questions that each of the contributions seeks to answer: (1) What kind of text is ? (2) What do the different strategies of interpretation conceptually bring to the text? (3) How do different interpreters justify their verdict on whether the is still a viable project?