The book presents a study of the formation of the idea of the concept in Hegel, his way of thinking, as well as the idea of “unhappy consciousness”. Hegel's philosophy cannot be reduced to a few logical formulas. Or rather, these formulas hide something that is not purely logical from the very beginning. Dialectic, before being a method, is an experience on the basis of which Hegel moves from one idea to another. Negativity is the very movement of the mind by which it always goes beyond what it is. In part, it is reflection on Christian thinking, on the idea of God who created man, that leads Hegel to the concept of the concrete universal. Behind the philosopher we find the theologian, and behind the rationalist we find the romantic. For a wide range of readers