Love and politics : re-interpreting Hegel / Alice Ormiston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ormiston, Alice, 1964-

Series:

SUNY series in Hegelian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Hegel, Georg Ludwig Friedrich, 1807-1831.

Hegel, Georg Ludwig Friedrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alice Ormiston's Love and Politics argues that modern politics is rooted not merely in the pursuit of power, but that it is essentially underpinned by the experience of love. Hegel understood love as a principle that unites reason and emotion, and self and other, and that provides the foundation for a deep sense of connectedness to the world and for genuine acts of autonomy. Through an original and highly accessible interpretation of Hegel's works, Ormiston shows how the modern commitment to individual rights and freedoms can only be adequately understood by reference to the experience of love that lies at the foundation of the modern subject and its political expression in acts of conscience. Hegel's thought thus joins forces with feminist arguments for an embodied theory of the subject and for a focus on empathy in political reasoning, with republican concerns about democracy and civic education, and with postmodern concerns about the otherness of certain experiences and forms of knowledge. Ormiston's book offers a developed concept of the subject that can serve as a foundation for resistance to problems of our time, including atomism and instrumental rationality, the ills of an unfettered capitalism, and the reality of a radical evil.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Hegel in the Context of Modernity

“The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate”

From Christianity to Conscience

Philosophy of Right

The Historical “Failure” of Ethical Life

Hegel and the Dual Task of Today

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-157) and index.

ISBN:

9780791485194

0791485196

9781423739791

1423739795

OCLC:

62757366