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Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Critical Perspectives on Freedom and History book cover

1st Edition

Hegel's Philosophy of Right Critical Perspectives on Freedom and History

Edited By Dean Moyar, Kate Padgett Walsh, Sebastian Rand Copyright 2023
394 Pages
by Routledge

394 Pages
by Routledge

394 Pages
by Routledge
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Right was his last systematic work and the most complete statement of his mature views on ethical and political philosophy. The text explores the relationships between three distinct conceptions of human freedom: persons as possessing contract rights, subjects as reflective moral agents, and individuals as members of an ethical community. It strongly influenced the early... Read more

Editors’ Introduction Dean Moyar, Kate Padgett Walsh, and Sebastian Rand

Part 1: The Frame of Right

1. Mind your Ps and Qs: Thinking through Hegel on Provisionality and Qualification Lydia Goehr

2. "This is the very essence of the Reformation: Man in his very nature is destined to be free": Hegel, Luther, and Freedom Robert Stern

3. Reading the Philosophy of Right in light of the Logic: Hegel on the Possibility of Multiple Modernities Arash Abazari

4. Objective Spirit and Nature Ludwig Siep

Part 2: From Formal Right to the Idea of Life

5. The Value of a Right: Status and Equivalence in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right Dean Moyar

6. A Withering of the Rose in the Cross of the Present: The Logical Structure of Liberal Capitalism’s Destruction of Ethical Life Jay Bernstein

7. True Right Against Formal Right. The Body of Right and the Limits of Property Thomas Khurana

Part 3: Ethical Life

8. The Institution of Sittlichkeit Jean-François Kervegan

9. The Significance of Plato for a "Disenchanted Aristotelian" Reading of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right Paul Redding

10. No Utopia: Hegel on the Gendered Division of Labor Andreja Novakovic

11. Debt and the Limits of Freedom in Market Society Kate Padgett Walsh

12. Hegel, Allegiance, and the Problem of Ethical Standing Robert Pippin

13. Civil Society and its Discontents: Hegel and the Problem of Poverty Stephen Houlgate

14. The Organic Lives of States Antón Barba-Kay

Part 4: Right and World History

15. Poetry and the Sense of History: Images, Narrative, and Justice in the Philosophy of Right Lydia Moland

16. Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Historicity in Hegel’s State Christopher Yeomans

17. Alle sind frei. Hegel’s Philosophy of History as Liberal Apologetics Mark Alznauer

18. "Humanity needed it, and it appeared forthwith": Hegel on World-Historical Technologies Sebastian Rand.

Index

Biography

Dean Moyar is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Kate Padgett Walsh is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University, USA.

Sebastian Rand is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA.

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