Hegel and the freedom of moderns / Domenico Losurdo ; translated from the Italian by Marella and Jon Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Losurdo, Domenico.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Standardized Title:

Hegel e la libertà dei moderni. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Political science--Germany--History--19th century.

Political science.

Liberalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Translated into English for the first time, this work portrays a different side of Hegel -- not just as a philosopher preoccupied with abstract ideas but a man deeply enmeshed and active in the pressing, concrete political issues of his time.

Contents:

ONE A Liberal, Secret Hegel?

I Searching for the "Authentic'' Hegel

1. Censorship and Self-Censorship

2. Linguistic Self-Censorship and Theoretical Compromise

3. Private Dimension and Philosophical Dimension

4. Hegel, a Mason?

5. Esoteric and Exoteric History

6. Philosophical Arguments and Political "Facts''

7. An Interpretative "Misunderstanding'' or a Real Contradiction?

II The Philosophies of Right: A Turning Point or Continuity

1. Reason and Actuality

2. The Power of the Sovereign

3. One Turn, Two Turns, or No Turn at All

TWO Hegel, Marx, and the Liberal Tradition

III Contractualism and the Modern State

1. Anticontractualism = Antiliberalism?

2. Contractualism and the Doctrine of Natural Law

3. Liberal Anticontractualism

4. The Celebration of Nature and the Ideology of Reactionism

5. Hegel and Feudal, Proto-Bourgeois Contractualism

6. Contractualism and the Modern State

IV Conservative or Liberal? A False Dilemma

1. Bobbio's Dilemma

2. Authority and Freedom

3. State and Individual

4. The Right to Resistance

5. The Right of Extreme Need and Individual Rights

6. Formal and Substantive Freedom

7. Interpretative Categories and Ideological Presuppositions

V Hegel and the Liberal Tradition: Two Opposing Interpretations of History

1. Hegel and Revolutions

2. Revolutions from the Bottom-Up or from the Top-Down

3. Revolution According to the Liberal Tradition

4. Patricians and Plebeians

5. Monarchy and Republic

6. The Repression of the Aristocracy and the March Toward Freedom

7. Anglophobia and Anglophilia

8. Hegel, England, and the Liberal Tradition

9. Equality and Freedom

VI The Intellectual, Property, and the Social Question

1. Theoretical Categories and Immediate Political Options

2. The Individual and Institutions

3. Institutions and the Social Question

4. Labor and Otium

5. Intellectuals and Property-Owners

6. Property and Political Representation

7. Intellectuals and Craftsmen

8. A Banausic, Plebeian Hegel?

9. The Social Question and Industrial Society

THREE Legitimacy and Contradictions of Modernity

VII Right, Violence, and Notrecht

1. War and the Right to Property: Hegel and Locke

2. From the Ius Necessitatis to the Right of Extreme Need

3. The Contradictions of Modern Economic Development

4. Notrecht and Self-Defense: Locke, Fichte, and Hegel

5. "Negative Judgment,'' "Negatively Infinite Judgment,'' and "Rebellion''

6. Notrecht, Ancien Regime, and Modernity

7. The Starving Man and the Slave

8. Ius Necessitatis, Ius Resistentiae, Notrecht

9. The Conflicts of Right with Moral Intention and Extreme Need

10. An Unsolved Problem

VIII "Agora'' and "Schole'': Rousseau, Hegel, and the Liberal Tradition

1. The Image of Ancient Times in France and Germany

2. Cynics, Monks, Quakers, Anabaptists, and Sansculottes

3. Rousseau, the "Poor People's Grudge,'' and Jacobinism

4. Politics and Economics in Rousseau and Hegel

5. The Social Question and Taxation

6. State, Contract, and Joint-Stock Company

7. Christianity, Human Rights, and the Community of Citoyens

8. The Liberal Tradition and Criticism of Rousseau and Hegel

9. Defense of the Individual and Criticism of Liberalism

IX School, Division of Labor, and Modern Man's Freedom

1. School, State, and the French Revolution

2. Compulsory Education and Freedom of Conscience

3. School, State, Church, and Family

4. The Rights of Children

5. School, Stability, and Social Mobility

6. Professions and the Division of Labor

7. Division of Labor and the Banality of Modernity: Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche

X Moral Tension and the Primacy of Politics

1. Modern World and the Waning of Moral Heroes

2. Inconclusiveness and Narcissism in Moral-Religious Precepts

3. Modern World and the Restriction of the Moral Sphere

4. Hegel and Kant

5. Hegel, Schleiermacher, and the Liberal Tradition

6. Hegel, Burke, and Neo-Aristotelian Conservatism

7. Hegel, Aristotle, and the Rejection of Solipsistic Escape

8. The French Revolution and the Celebration of Ethicality

9. Morality, Ethicality, and Modern Freedom

10. Hegel's Ethical Model and Contemporary Actuality

XI Legitimacy of the Modern and Rationality of the Actual

1. The "Querelle des Anciens, des Modernes,'' and of the Ancient Germans

2. Rejection of Modernity, Cult of Heroes, and Anti-Hegelian Polemic

3. Kant, Kleist, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche

4. Modernity and the Uneasiness of the Liberal Tradition

5. Philistinism, Statism, and Modern Standardization

6. The Rationality of the Actual and the Difficult Balance between Legitimation and Criticism of Modernity

FOUR The Western World, Liberalism, and the Interpretation of Hegel's Thought

XII The Second Thirty Years War and the "Philosophical Crusade'' against Germany

1. Germans, "Goths,'' "Huns,'' and "Vandals''

2. The Great Western Purge

3. The Transformation of the Liberal Western World

4. An Imaginary Western World, an Imaginary Germany

5. Hegel Faces the Western Tribunal

6. Ilting and the Liberal Rehabilitation of Hegel

7. Lukacs and the Burden of National Stereotypes

XIII Liberalism, Conservatism, the French Revolution, and Classic German Philosophy

1. Allgemeinheit and Egalite

2. The English Origins of German Conservatism

3. A Selective Anglophilia

4. Tracing the Origins of Social Darwinism and Fascist Ideology

5. Beyond National Stereotypes

6. Burke and the History of European Liberalism

7. Burke's School of Thought and Classic German Philosophy

8. Hegel and the Legacy of the French Revolution

9. The Conflicts of Freedom.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-367) and index.

ISBN:

9786612921131

9781282921139

1282921134

9780822385608

0822385600

OCLC:

191855716