Hegel's political philosophy : on the normative significance of method and system / edited by Thom Brooks and Sebastian Stein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brooks, Thom, editor.

Stein, Sebastian, 1980- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831--Political and social views.

Political science--Germany--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 282 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

On the normative significance of method and system

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Hegel famously argues that his speculative method is a foundation for claims about socio-political reality within a wider philosophical system. This systematic approach is thought a superior alternative to all other ways of philosophical thinking. Hegel’s method and system have normative significance for understanding everything from ethics to the state. Hegel’s approach has attracted much debate among scholars about key philosophical questions—and controversy about his proposed answers to them. Is his method and system open to the charge of dogmatism? Are his claims about the rationality of monarchy, unequal gender relations, an unelected second parliamentary chamber, and a corporation-based economy beyond revision? If not, does his political philosophy collapse into relativism? Since Hegel’s method is supposed to save him from either extreme, is there anything about his criticism of previous philosophies that could make his approach attractive to contemporary thinkers? Or is it preferable to focus on Hegel’s conclusions only, disregard his method, and interpret him in a non-systematic reading? This groundbreaking collection of new essays by leading interpreters of Hegel’s philosophy is dedicated to the questions that surround Hegel’s philosophical method and its relationship to the conclusions of his political philosophy. It contributes to the ongoing debate about the importance of a systematic context for political philosophy and the relationship between theoretical and practical philosophy, and it engages with contemporary discussions about the shape of a rational social order and gauges the timeliness of Hegel’s way of thinking.

Contents:

What might it mean to have a systematic idealist, but anti-Platonist, practical philosophy? / Paul Redding

Systematicity and normative justification: The method of Hegel's philosophical science of right / Kevin Thompson

In what sense is Hegel's Philosophy of Right "Based" on his Science of Logic? Remarks on the logic of justice / Robert B. Pippin

Method and system in Hegel's Philosophy of Right / Allen W. Wood

The relevance of the logical method for Hegel's practical philosophy / Angelica Nuzzo

The state as a system of three syllogisms: Hegel's notion of the state and its logical foundations / Klaus Vieweg

Hegel's shephed's way out of the thicket / Terry Pinkard

To know and not know right: Hegel on empirical cognition and philosophical knowledge of right / Sebastian Stein

Individuals: The revisionary logic of Hegel's politics / Katerina Deligiorgi

Hegel on crime and punishment / Thom Brooks

The logic of right / Richard Dien Winfield

Hegel, autonomy, and community / Liz Disley

Hegel's natural law construcitivsm: Progress in principle and in practice / Kenneth R. Westphal.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

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

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-251904-2

0-19-182361-9

0-19-108400-X