Hegel and the representative constitution / Elias Buchetmann, University of Rostock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchetmann, Elias, author.

Series:

Ideas in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Constitutional history--Europe, Central--19th century.

Constitutional history.

Representative government and representation--Europe, Central--History--19th century.

Representative government and representation.

Europe, Central--Politics and government--19th century.

Europe, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Hegel and the Representative Constitution provides the first comprehensive historical discussion of the institutional dimension of G. W. F. Hegel's political thought. Elias Buchetmann traces this much-neglected aspect in unprecedented contextual detail and makes the case for reading the Philosophy of Right from 1820 as a contribution to the lively and widespread public debate on the constitutional question in contemporary Central Europe. Drawing on a broad range of primary source material, this volume illuminates the wider political discourse in post-Napoleonic Germany, carefully locates Hegel's institutional commitments within their immediate cultural and political context, and reveals him as something closer to a public intellectual. By exploring this indispensable thinker's demand for the constitutional protection of popular participation in government, it contributes beyond Hegel scholarship to shed new light on the history of democratic theory in early nineteenth-century Europe and encourages critical reflection on questions of representation today.

Contents:

Introduction: Humanising Hegel

The constitutional question in post-Napoleonic Germany

On the nature of constitutions

The distribution of power

Debating the two-chamber system

The representation of interests

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Apr 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009305983 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

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