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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Critique of Mechanism in the Political Philosophy of Herder and German Romanticism
Chapter Two: The Political Function of Machine Metaphors in Hegel’s Early Writings
Mechanism in Religious Practice
Chapter Three: The Mechanization of Labor and the Birth of Modern Ethicality in Hegel’s Jena Political Writings
Chapter Four: Mechanism and the Problem of Self-Determination in Hegel’s Logic
Chapter Five: The Modern State as Absolute Mechanism: Hegel’s Logical Insight into the Relation of Civil Society and the State
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Nathan Ross is currently on the faculty at DePaul University, and his work as a scholar is concerned with researching the social and political philosophies of Kant, Hegel and the German Romantics. He has published articles in Hegel-Jahrbuch, Idealistic Studies, and is currently researching the political implications of the theory of aesthetic experience in Kant, Schiller, Friedrich Schlegel and Hölderlin.
