Hegel’s Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138288519 ISBN 13: 9781138288515

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

The renaissance in Hegel scholarship over the past two decades has largely ignored or marginalized the metaphysical dimension of his thought, perhaps most vigorously when considering his social and political philosophy. Many scholars have consistently maintained that Hegel’s political philosophy must be reconstructed without the metaphysical structure that Hegel saw as his crowning philosophical achievement. This book brings together twelve original essays that explore the relation between Hegel’s metaphysics and his political, social, and practical philosophy. The essays seek to explore what normative insights and positions can be obtained from examining Hegel’s distinctive view of the metaphysical dimensions of political philosophy. His ideas about the good, the universal, freedom, rationality, objectivity, self-determination, and self-development can be seen in a new context and with renewed understanding once their relation to his metaphysical project is considered. Hegel’s Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics will be of great interest to scholars of Hegelian philosophy, German Idealism, nineteenth-century philosophy, political philosophy, and political theory.

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About the Author

Michael J. Thompson is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at William Patterson University. His most recent books include The Domestication of Critical Theory, Political Judgment and the Crisis of Modernity and Twilight of the Self: The Eclipse of Autonomy in Modern Society.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138288519
• ISBN 13: 9781138288515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 334
• Editor: Thompson Michael J.