Frontmatter -- Preface -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART I. LANGUAGE AND INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS -- I. Hegel on the Study of Languages -- II. Signification: The Primary Expression of Consciousness -- III. Language and Consciousness in the Phänomenologie des Geistes -- PART II. LANGUAGE AND COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS -- IV. Reason, Language and the Spirit of a People -- V. Language as the Medium of Culture and Morality -- PART III. LANGUAGE AND ABSOLUTE SPIRIT -- VI. Art and Language -- VII. The Spoken Word -- VIII. The Speculative Powers of Language -- IX. Philosophy and Language -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter