Hegel and capitalism / edited by Andrew Buchwalter ; contributors, Andrew Buchwalter [and twelve others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buchwalter, Andrew, editor, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together scholars from varying perspectives, this book examines the value of Hegel's thought for understanding and assessing capitalism, both as encountered by Hegel himself and in forms it takes today. The contributors consider Hegel's complex and multifaceted appraisal of modern market societies, which he understands variously as a condition for a proper account of individual freedom, the framework for a productive account of social interdependency, and the breeding ground for a host of social pathologies concerning individual consumption, labor conditions, and disparities in wealth between the rich and poor. Hegel's ideas about the topic are situated in the context of work by other important thinkers, including Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, J. G. Fichte, Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Theodor Adorno, along with contemporary social and economic theorists. Demonstrating the value of Hegel's philosophy for addressing issues pertaining to capitalism today, the essays bring insight to contemporary concerns such as resurgent neoliberalism, economic globalization, the subordination of ever more spheres of human life to the logic of economic imperatives, and the adequacy of models of utility maximization for comprehending contemporary market societies.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Hegel and Capitalism; Hegel and the Contemporary Discourse on Capitalism; Themes and Arguments; Chapter 1 Hegel Discovers Capitalism: Critique of Individualism, Social Labor, and Reification during the Jena Period (1801-1807); Introduction: Jena or Philosophy as the Need for Unification; The Negative Labor of the Concept; Critique of Individualism and Sociohistorical Holism: A Structured Historical Totality; Abstract Social Labor, Reification, and the Dynamics of Market Economy; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Abbreviations for Works by G.W.F. Hegel

Chapter 2 Beyond Recognition in Capitalism: From Violence and Caprice to Recognition and SolidarityIntroduction; Fichte's Radical Critique of Capitalism; "Property," "Person," and "Recognition" in the System of Ethical Life; Struggle for Recognition as an Ethical Praxis; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 3 Anonymity, Responsibility, and the Many Faces of Capitalism: Hegel and the Crisis of the Modern Self; Hegel's Dialectical Proof Procedure; Reason as Impersonal Objectivity; Self-Confident Individuality; Rational Individuality Universalized; The Spiritual Transformation of the Human Self

Economic Relations ReconceivedNotes; Works Cited; Abbreviations for Works by G.W.F. Hegel; Chapter 4 The Purest Inequality: Hegel's Critique of the Labor Contract and Capitalism; Valorization and Devalorization; Money and the Alienation of Personality; Critique of the Labor Contract in the Philosophy of Right; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 5 Hegel's Notion of Abstract Labor in the Elements of the Philosophy of Right; Notes; Works Cited; Abbreviations for Works by G.W.F. Hegel; Chapter 6 Hegel's Torment: Poverty and the Rationality of the Modern State

Poverty as Wrongful Dependence on the Choice of AnotherPoverty as Socially Frustrated Personality; Poverty and the Rationality of the Modern State; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 7 Capitalism as Deficient Modernity: Hegel against the Modern Economy; Introduction; Capitalism as Deficient Modernity; Capitalism as a Pathology of Rational Ethical Life; Do We Have Obligations to Capitalist Institutions?; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Abbreviations for Works by G.W.F. Hegel; Chapter 8 Economy and Ethical Community; The Persisting Doubts of the Economy's Ethical Standing

The Common Denials of Any Normativity to the EconomyThe Economy as an Institution of Right; Economic Self-Determination as a Form of Ethical Community; The Challenge of Fulfilling the Ethical Imperatives of Economic Opportunity; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 9 Two Ways of "Taming" the Market: Why Hegel Needs the Police and the Corporations; Introduction; The Laws of the Market; Hegel's Sociological Perspective; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Abbreviations for Works by G.W.F. Hegel

Chapter 10 Hegel's Logical Critique of Capitalism: The Paradox of Dependence and the Model of Reciprocal Mediation

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438458779

1438458770

OCLC:

919720036