This was a weird one, and I'm not surprised it's out of print. There are better books by Heidegger about Hegel out there, or even sections (see 'Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit,' or the last sections of 'Being and Time,') and there are introductions to Hegel which can be understood without wading through Heideggerisms (of the 'The Absolute absolves itself in its absolution' variety). The important point is that Heidegger knew very well that Hegel wasn't a crazy pre-critical metaphysician; that Heidegger thought Hegel was still doing 'metaphysics,' inasmuch as the subject takes the place of substance as the object of metaphysics while retaining all that was wrong with metaphysics in the first place; and that Heidegger heideggers Hegel, by claiming that the 'standards' (i.e., normative restraints) conscious *gives itself* (thus Hegel) are *given to* consciousness by the absolute. So, for Hegel we ideally make up our own minds, while for Heidegger our minds are made for us, and we should recognize that and not try to change it.

I have my doubts about the quality of the translation (of Heidegger), too, but don't have the German to double check. ( )