Hegels Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics / editor, Michael J. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thompson, Michael J., editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century philosophy ; 17.

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century philosophy ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Summary:

"The renaissance in Hegel scholarship over the past two decades has largely ignored or marginalized the metaphysical dimension of his thought, perhaps most vigorously when considering his social and political philosophy. Many scholars have consistently maintained that Hegels political philosophy must be reconstructed without the metaphysical structure that Hegel saw as his crowning philosophical achievement. This book brings together twelve original essays that explore the relation between Hegels metaphysics and his political, social, and practical philosophy. The essays seek to explore what normative insights and positions can be obtained from examining Hegels distinctive view of the metaphysical dimensions of political philosophy. His ideas about the good, the universal, freedom, rationality, objectivity, self-determination, and self-development can be seen in a new context and with renewed understanding once their relation to his metaphysical project is considered. Hegels Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics will be of great interest to scholars of Hegelian philosophy, German Idealism, nineteenth-century philosophy, political philosophy, and political theory. "--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Part I The Relation of Hegel's Metaphysics and Political Theory

1 The Course of God: Reading Hegel

2 The Metaphysic of Spirit and Hegel's Philosophy of Politics

3 Speculative Logic as Practical Philosophy: Political Life in Times of Crisis

4 Metaphysics and the Poverty of Liberal-Positivist Political Thought

Part II Ontology, Metaphysics and Practical Reason

5 The Metaphysical Infrastructure of Hegel's Practical Philosophy

6 The Metaphysics of Rational Action: Kantian and Aristotelian Themes in Hegel's Absolute Idealism

7 Against the Post-Kantian Interpretation of Hegel: A Study in Proto-Marxist Metaphysics

8 Objective Spirit: Hegel's Normative Social Ontology

Part III Metaphysics, History and the Structures of Ethical Life

9 Family Structures as Fields of Historical Tension: A Case Study in the Relation of Metaphysics and Politics

10 Hegel's Metaphysics of Marriage: Teleology, Ontology and Sexually Embodied Freedom in the Philosophy of Right's Account of the Family

11 Tiger Stripes and Embodied Systems: Hegel on Markets and Models

12 Hegel and the End of a Particular Historical Development

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-97424-6

1-315-26783-7

1-351-97425-4

9781315267838

OCLC:

1027779067