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The Actual and the Rational : Hegel and Objective Spirit / Jean-Francois Kervegan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kervegan, Jean-Francois, author.
- Series:
- Chicago scholarship online.
- Chicago scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Effectif et le rationnel. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Law--Philosophy.
- Law.
- Subjectivity.
- Objectivity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (419 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Jean-François Kervégan is professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Daniela Ginsburg is a translator who has translated many articles and books in the humanities and social sciences. Martin Shuster is assistant professor and chair of Judaic studies in the Center for Geographies of Justice at Goucher College. He is the author of New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
- Summary:
- One of Hegel's most controversial and confounding claims is that "the real is rational and the rational is real." In this book, one of the world's leading scholars of Hegel, Jean-François Kervégan, offers a thorough analysis and explanation of that claim, along the way delivering a compelling account of modern social, political, and ethical life. Kervégan begins with Hegel's term "objective spirit," the public manifestation of our deepest commitments, the binding norms that shape our existence as subjects and agents. He examines objective spirit in three realms: the notion of right, the theory of society, and the state. In conversation with Tocqueville and other theorists of democracy, whether in the Anglophone world or in Europe, Kervégan shows how Hegel-often associated with grand metaphysical ideas-actually had a specific conception of civil society and the state. In Hegel's view, public institutions represent the fulfillment of deep subjective needs-and in that sense, demonstrate that the real is the rational, because what surrounds us is the product of our collective mindedness. This groundbreaking analysis will guide the study of Hegel and nineteenth-century political thought for years to come.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Hegel without Metaphysics?
- Prologue: The Actual and the Rational
- PART I. The Law: The Positivity of Abstraction
- PART II. The Vitality and Flaws of the Social
- PART III. The State and the Political
- PART IV. Figures of Subjectivity in Objective Spirit: Normativity and Institutions
- Epilogue: The Passion of the Concept
- Translator's Note
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780226023946
- 022602394X
- OCLC:
- 1046634151
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