Tag: The State

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Major Works

  • Elements of the Philosophy of Right (Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts)

    - Hegel, G. W. F. Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. In addition, the translation by T. M. Knox (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1942) is widely used in existing Hegel scholarship. The Nisbet translation is recommended because it is more literal, and includes the canonical "additions" of Hegel's student Eduard Gans in the body of the text where they are relevant.   Hegel, G. W. F. Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Translated by T. M. Knox. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1942.   First published in 1820.
    Excerpt from the Preface: “This treatise, therefore, in so far as it deals with political science, shall be nothing other than an attempt to comprehend and portray the state as an inherently rational entity. As a philosophical composition, it must… More

  • Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences Part 3: Philosophy of Spirit (Wissenschaft des Geistes)

    Excerpt: The knowledge of Mind is the highest and hardest, just because it is the most ‘concrete’ of sciences. The significance of that ‘absolute’ commandment, Know thyself – whether we look at it in itself or under the… More

  • Lectures on the Philosophy of World History

    - Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History. Translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
    From the publisher: “An English translation of Hegel’s introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history, based directly on the standard German edition by Johannes Hoffmeister, first published in 1955. The previous English translation, by… More

Commentary

  • La Philosophie Politique de Hegel

    - Fleischmann, Eugene. La philosophie politique de Hegel, Paris, 1964.

  • Introduction a la Philosophie Politique de Hegel

    - Hyppolite, Jean.  Introduction a la philosophie politique de Hegel, Paris, 1964.

  • Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

    - Marx, Karl.  Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, tr. Joseph O’Malley, Cambridge, 1970.
    Excerpt: Hegel: The maintenance of the state’s universal interest, and of legality, in this sphere of particular rights, and the work of bringing these rights back to the universal, require to be superintended by holders of the executive power, by (a)… More

  • Hegel’s Political Philosophy

    - Kaufmann, Walter, ed. Hegel’s Political Philosophy, New York, 1970.
    Excerpt: 8. The State When Hegel speaks of “the State” he does not mean every state encountered in experience. Immediately after first offering his epigram about the rational and actual, he himself continued: What matters is this: to recognize in… More

  • Hegel’s Political Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives

    - Pelczynski, Z. Ed. Hegel’s Political Philosophy. Cambridge, 1971.
    The following excerpt is from the editor’s own essay, “The Hegelian conception of the state.” It is noteworthy that the concept of the state as Hegel first elaborated it has all the clarity and simplicity of Hobbes’… More

  • Hegel’s Theory of the Modern State

    - Shlomo Avineri, Hegel's Theory of the Modern State, Cambridge University Press, 1974.
    […] Hegel has to be seen as the first major modern political philosopher who attempted to confront the realities of the modern age. While many among eighteenth-century philosophers undoubtedly helped to shape the emergent modern world, their basically… More

  • The Young Hegel

    - Lukacs, Georg. The Young Hegel, tr. Rodney Livingston. London, 1975.
    Excerpt: The present analysis of Hegel’s economic views will confirm the accuracy of Marx’s observations, both in their positive and in their negative aspects. Hegel did not produce a system of economics within his general philosophy, his ideas were… More

  • Hegel’s Retreat from Eleusis

    - Kelly, George Armstrong. Hegel’s Retreat from Eleusis. Princeton, 1978.
    Excerpt: We do not know whether Hegel read Fichte’s incendiary tract against the German Burkeans, but it seems likely that he did, since it was, to say the least, hot copy among young intellectuals. In any case, the contemporary associations of lordship… More

  • The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger, and After

    - Kolb, David.  The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger, and After, Chicago, 1978.
    Excerpt: One common understanding of progress and development urges the creation or liberation of something like a pure personal individuality and a pure human society. At the same time we also feel it is important to have roots that can give us more than… More

  • Hegel and Modern Society

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    Taylor, Charles. Hegel and Modern Society. Cambridge, 1979.

    Excerpt: Against [expressivism], Herder and others developed an alternative notion of man whose dominant image was rather tha of an expressive object. Human life was seen as having a unity rather analogous to that of a work of art, where every part or aspect… More

  • Hegel’s Critique of the Enlightenment

    - Hinchman, Lewis. Hegel’s Critique of the Enlightenment, Gainsville 1984.
    Excerpt: … [I]nternal democracy does not have an intrinsic value for Hegel. He portrays it as an arena for caprice and subjective opinion that, in spite of their relative justification as an expression of subjective freedom, are mainly exercised in… More

  • Georg W. F. Hegel by Pierre Hassner

    - Hassner, Pierre. “Georg W. F. Hegel.” In History of Political Philosophy, edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, 3rd ed., 657–678. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
    Excerpt: “Against the attitude of a moral, religious, or intellectual consciousness which attempts to take refuge in the inner life and to reject the “sound and fury” of political realities, Hegel justifies political life as such. It is only in and… More

  • Hegel’s Critique of Liberalism

    - Smith, Steven B. Hegel’s Critique of Liberalism. Chicago and London, 1989.
    Excerpt: My purpose here is… to examine the genesis of the critique of rights-based liberalism in the philosophy of Hegel. One advantage of this approach is that as a critic of liberalism in at least its early modern or classic form, Hegel provides us… More

  • Hegel’s Ethical Thought

    - Wood, Allen. Hegel’s Ethical Thought, Cambridge, 1990
    Excerpt: 5. Does Hegel have an ethics? It is sometimes said, by Hegel’s sympathizers as well as his detractors, that Hegel’s system contains no “ethics” at all, that for Hegel moral philosophy is “dissolved in sociology” or… More

  • The Cambridge Companion to Hegel

    - Beiser, Frederick C., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Hegel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
    From the publisher: “Few thinkers are more controversial in the history of philosophy than Hegel. He has been dismissed as a charlatan and obscurantist, but also praised as one of the greatest thinkers in modern philosophy. No one interested in… More

  • Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Zizek

    - Žižek, Slavoj. Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. London: Verso, 2012.
    Excerpt: “The same holds for the unreliability of the verbal reports given by Holocaust survivors: a witness who was able to offer a clear narrative of his camp experience would thereby disqualify himself. In a Hegelian way, the problem here is part of… More

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