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1 online resource (xix, 378 pages) |
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Post-contemporary interventions |
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Post-contemporary interventions.
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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ONE A Liberal, Secret Hegel? -- I Searching for the "Authentic'' Hegel -- 1. Censorship and Self-Censorship -- 2. Linguistic Self-Censorship and Theoretical Compromise -- 3. Private Dimension and Philosophical Dimension -- 4. Hegel, a Mason? -- 5. Esoteric and Exoteric History -- 6. Philosophical Arguments and Political "Facts'' -- 7. An Interpretative "Misunderstanding'' or a Real Contradiction? -- II The Philosophies of Right: A Turning Point or Continuity -- 1. Reason and Actuality -- 2. The Power of the Sovereign -- 3. One Turn, Two Turns, or No Turn at All |
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TWO Hegel, Marx, and the Liberal Tradition-- III Contractualism and the Modern State -- 1. Anticontractualism = Antiliberalism? -- 2. Contractualism and the Doctrine of Natural Law -- 3. Liberal Anticontractualism -- 4. The Celebration of Nature and the Ideology of Reactionism -- 5. Hegel and Feudal, Proto-Bourgeois Contractualism -- 6. Contractualism and the Modern State -- IV Conservative or Liberal? A False Dilemma -- 1. Bobbio's Dilemma -- 2. Authority and Freedom -- 3. State and Individual -- 4. The Right to Resistance -- 5. The Right of Extreme Need and Individual Rights -- 6. Formal and Substantive Freedom -- 7. Interpretative Categories and Ideological Presuppositions |
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V Hegel and the Liberal Tradition: Two Opposing Interpretations of History -- 1. Hegel and Revolutions -- 2. Revolutions from the Bottom-Up or from the Top-Down -- 3. Revolution According to the Liberal Tradition -- 4. Patricians and Plebeians -- 5. Monarchy and Republic -- 6. The Repression of the Aristocracy and the March Toward Freedom -- 7. Anglophobia and Anglophilia -- 8. Hegel, England, and the Liberal Tradition -- 9. Equality and Freedom |
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VI The Intellectual, Property, and the Social Question -- 1. Theoretical Categories and Immediate Political Options -- 2. The Individual and Institutions -- 3. Institutions and the Social Question -- 4. Labor and Otium -- 5. Intellectuals and Property-Owners -- 6. Property and Political Representation -- 7. Intellectuals and Craftsmen -- 8. A Banausic, Plebeian Hegel? -- 9. The Social Question and Industrial Society |
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THREE Legitimacy and Contradictions of Modernity -- VII Right, Violence, and Notrecht -- 1. War and the Right to Property: Hegel and Locke -- 2. From the Ius Necessitatis to the Right of Extreme Need -- 3. The Contradictions of Modern Economic Development -- 4. Notrecht and Self-Defense: Locke, Fichte, and Hegel -- 5. "Negative Judgment, '' "Negatively Infinite Judgment, '' and "Rebellion'' -- 6. Notrecht, Ancien Régime, and Modernity -- 7. The Starving Man and the Slave -- 8. Ius Necessitatis, Ius Resistentiae, Notrecht -- 9. The Conflicts of Right with Moral Intention and Extreme Need -- 10. An Unsolved Problem |
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VIII "Agora'' and "Schole'': Rousseau, Hegel, and the Liberal Tradition -- 1. The Image of Ancient Times in France and Germany -- 2. Cynics, Monks, Quakers, Anabaptists, and Sansculottes -- 3. Rousseau, the "Poor People's Grudge, '' and Jacobinism -- 4. Politics and Economics in Rousseau and Hegel -- 5. The Social Question and Taxation -- 6. State, Contract, and Joint-Stock Company -- 7. Christianity, Human Rights, and the Community of Citoyens -- 8. The Liberal Tradition and Criticism of Rousseau and Hegel -- 9. Defense of the Individual and Criticism of Liberalism |
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IX School, Division of Labor, and Modern Man's Freedom -- 1. School, State, and the French Revolution -- 2. Compulsory Education and Freedom of Conscience -- 3. School, State, Church, and Family -- 4. The Rights of Children -- 5. School, Stability, and Social Mobility -- 6. Professions and the Division of Labor -- 7. Division of Labor and the Banality of Modernity: Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche |
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X Moral Tension and the Primacy of Politics -- 1. Modern World and the Waning of Moral Heroes -- 2. Inconclusiveness and Narcissism in Moral-Religious Precepts -- 3. Modern World and the Restriction of the Moral Sphere -- 4. Hegel and Kant -- 5. Hegel, Schleiermacher, and the Liberal Tradition -- 6. Hegel, Burke, and Neo-Aristotelian Conservatism -- 7. Hegel, Aristotle, and the Rejection of Solipsistic Escape -- 8. The French Revolution and the Celebration of Ethicality -- 9. Morality, Ethicality, and Modern Freedom -- 10. Hegel's Ethical Model and Contemporary Actuality |
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XI Legitimacy of the Modern and Rationality of the Actual -- 1. The "Querelle des Anciens, des Modernes, '' and of the Ancient Germans -- 2. Rejection of Modernity, Cult of Heroes, and Anti-Hegelian Polemic -- 3. Kant, Kleist, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche -- 4. Modernity and the Uneasiness of the Liberal Tradition -- 5. Philistinism, Statism, and Modern Standardization -- 6. The Rationality of the Actual and the Difficult Balance between Legitimation and Criticism of Modernity |
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FOUR The Western World, Liberalism, and the Interpretation of Hegel's Thought -- XII The Second Thirty Years War and the "Philosophical Crusade'' against Germany -- 1. Germans, "Goths, '' "Huns, '' and "Vandals'' -- 2. The Great Western Purge -- 3. The Transformation of the Liberal Western World -- 4. An Imaginary Western World, an Imaginary Germany -- 5. Hegel Faces the Western Tribunal -- 6. Ilting and the Liberal Rehabilitation of Hegel -- 7. Lukács and the Burden of National Stereotypes |
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XIII Liberalism, Conservatism, the French Revolution, and Classic German Philosophy -- 1. Allgemeinheit and Égalité -- 2. The English Origins of German Conservatism -- 3. A Selective Anglophilia -- 4. Tracing the Origins of Social Darwinism and Fascist Ideology -- 5. Beyond National Stereotypes -- 6. Burke and the History of European Liberalism -- 7. Burke's School of Thought and Classic German Philosophy -- 8. Hegel and the Legacy of the French Revolution -- 9. The Conflicts of Freedom |
Summary |
'Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns' shows how the philosopher was fully engaged in the political debates of his day. Losurdo argues that attempts to cast Hegel as a 'conservative' or a 'liberal' have obscured many aspects of Hegel's political thought |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-367) and index |
Notes |
Translated from the Italian |
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Subject |
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
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SUBJECT |
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 fast |
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Political science -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
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Liberalism.
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liberalism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Liberalism
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Political science
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Germany
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Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780822385608 |
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0822385600 |
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9781282921139 |
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1282921134 |
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9786612921131 |
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6612921137 |
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