Hegel is notable for his distinctive contribution to the perennial concerns of political philosophy. He outlines a powerful account of freedom as both a personal and social achievement, discussing theories of personal rights, private property and punishment. He articulates a social analysis of human action and criticizes Kantian ethics. His theory of self-actualization locates our social identities within ‘Ethical Life’ – the institutions of family life, civil society and the state – expressing a unique variety of rationalist conservatism. In this volume some of the finest interpreters of Hegel writing in English explore this distinguished heritage and explain its contemporary relevance.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I: THE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF HEGEL’S APPROACH TO POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
1. Hegel’s Dopplesatz: A Neutral Reading by Robert Stern
2. Freedom and Social Categories in Hegel’s Ethics by Terry Pinkard
3. Hegel and Institutional Rationality by Robert B. Pippin
4. The Project of Reconciliation: Hegel’s Social Philosophy by Michael O. Hardimon
PART II: HEGEL ON WILL AND ABSTRACT RIGHT
5. The Unity of Theoretical and Practical Spirit in Hegel’s Concept of Freedom by Stephen Houlgate
6. Hegel on Slavery and Domination by Steven B. Smith
7. What Is the Question for Which Hegel’s Theory of Recognition Is the Answer? by Robert B. Pippin
8. Hegel’s Justification of Private Property by Alan Patten
9. Hegel’s Analysis of Property in the Philosophy of Right by Peter G. Stillman
10. Annulment Retributivism: A Hegelian Theory of Punishment by Jami L. Anderson
11. Hegel on the Justification of Punishment by Dudley Knowles
PART III: HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION AND CRITICISM OF KANT
12. The Emptiness of the Moral Will by Allen W. Wood
13. Kant, Hegel and Determining Our Duties by Kenneth R. Westphal
14. Hegel’s Theory of Moral Action, Its Place in His System and the ‘Highest’ Right of the Subject by David Rose
15. Ethical Life and the Demands of Conscience by Frederick Neuhouser
PART IV: ETHICAL LIFE
16. Family, Civil Society and the State: Spirit’s Phoenix and History’s Owl or the Incoherence of Dialectics in Hegel’s Account of Women by Benjamin R. Barber
17. Community and Indigence: A Hegelian Perspective on Aid to the Poor by Alexander Kaufman
18. Hegel and Liberalism by Paul Franco
19. Hegel on Political Sentiment by Joseph J. O’Malley
20. Hegel’s Political Anti-Cosmopolitanism: On the Limits of Modern Political Communities by James Bohman
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