Douglas Moggach

Biographic Data

ID1401934
NAMEDouglas Moggach
GIVEN NAMESDouglas
FAMILY NAMEMoggach
SIGNATUREMOGGACH D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Ottawa
ORCID0000-0001-6705-4685
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Practical Idealism: On Fernanda Gallo’s Reading of Hegel and Italian Political Thought

    Douglas MoggachARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2026

    Italian receptions of Hegel's political thought analysed in Fernanda Gallo's careful study, can be examined through Fichte's concepts of 'positing' or taking up extrinsic material within a pre-existing conceptual scheme, but in this reciprocal interaction, both elements, receiver and received, are changed. Gallo shows both how Hegel is filtered through Italian philosophical traditions and how Hegel's thought in turn challenges these traditions. W…

  • Freedom and Perfection: German Political Thought from Leibniz to Marx

    Open AccessDouglas MoggachBOOKFreedom and Perfection2025

    Leibniz, this study argues, is the genuine initiator of German Idealism. His analysis of freedom as spontaneity and the relations he establishes among freedom, justice, and progress underlie Kant's ideas of rightful interaction and his critiques of Enlightened absolutism. Freedom and Perfection offers a historical examination of perfectionism, its political implications and transformations in German thought between 1650 and 1850. Douglas Moggach …

  • Left-Kantian Perfectionism

    Douglas MoggachARTICLECritical Review2021Cited by: 2References: 19

    The historical context of early post-Kantian debates on politics reveals the emergence of a new type of perfectionist ethics no longer based on the state-sponsored promotion of happiness, as the dominant German tendency in the eighteenth century had been, but on individual freedom. Post-Kantian perfectionism focused on maintaining and enhancing the conditions for rightful interaction among self-defining individuals. Rather than isolating and alie…

  • Perfektionismus der Autonomie

    Maximiliano Hernández Marcos, Luca Fonnesu et al.BOOKPerfektionismus der Autonomie2020

    Der Band versammelt philosophische Beiträge, die den Theorietyp des Autonomieperfektionismus in historischer und systematischer Perspektive beleuchten. Im Zuge von Immanuel Kants Kritik an früheren perfektionistischen Ethikentwürfen – insbesondere die von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz und Christian Wolff – entsteht ein neuer Theorietyp, der nicht wie die früheren Konzeptionen auf die Beförderung von Glück abzielt, sondern auf die Beförderung von Frei…

  • Italian receptions of Hegel: Epilogue

    Douglas MoggachARTICLEJournal of Modern Italian Studies2019

    The reconstruction of national receptions of Hegel, and the inflections of his influence through local traditions and international exchanges, remains a fruitful field of investigation. The Anglophone literature has been relatively neglectful of the specific contributions made by Italian readings of Hegel, from his earliest reception onwards. The collection published here builds toward a fuller understanding of Hegel's diagnosis of the origins an…

  • The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought

    Douglas Moggach, Gareth Stedman JonesBOOK1848 Revolutions and European…2018

    The revolutions that swept across Europe in 1848 marked a turning-point in the history of political and social thought. They raised questions of democracy, nationhood, freedom and social cohesion that have remained among the key issues of modern politics, and still help to define the major ideological currents - liberalism, socialism, republicanism, anarchism, conservatism - in which these questions continue to be debated today. This collection o…

  • Contextualising Fichte: Leibniz, Kant, and Perfectionist Ethics

    Douglas MoggachCHAPTERMit Fichte philosophieren2018

    An examination of the intellectual context in which Fichte develops his ethical program in the Jena period and its immediate aftermath (1794–1800) reveals the determining presence of Leibniz, and the complex heritage of Leibnizian perfectionist thought from which Kantian, and post-Kantian, ethics seek to extricate themselves. While Kant blocks any reversion to the older, Leibnizian perfectionism, his criticisms leave open a space for a new kind o…

  • Between Leibniz and Kant: The Political Thought of Wilhelm von Humboldt

    Birsen Filip, Douglas MoggachARTICLEThe European Legacy2018References: 22

    In his early text, The Limits of State Action, Wilhelm von Humboldt raises the Kantian question of the permissibility and legitimate extent of political and juridical coercion, as his contribution to a debate amongst Kantians launched by the publication in 1785 of Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. In arguing for a minimal state, concerned exclusively with internal and external security of its members but not at all with their felici…

  • Romantic Political Thought

    Douglas Moggach, Paul HamiltonBOOKOxford Handbook of European…2016

    In assessing the political charge of Romanticism, Georg Lukács castigated it for its irrationalism and proto-fascistic tendencies, while Jacques Barzun stressed its anti-totalitarian character, its promotion of individuality and diversity against imposed uniformity and coercion. More recent critics have produced a complex typology of Romantic political critiques of modernity, from restorationist conservative to utopian socialist. This chapter tak…

  • Die linken Hegelianer: Studien zum Verhältnis von Religion und Politik im Vormärz

    Ludwig Siep, Simon Derpmann et al.BOOKDie linken Hegelianer2015Cited by: 4

    Als Hegel 1831 stirbt, entwickelt sich in den Kreisen seiner Anhänger eine komplexe Diskussion über das Verhältnis von Religion, Philosophie und Staat. Was zunächst als Debatte um die adäquate Deutung des Hegelschen Denkens beginnt, gestaltet sich im Vorlauf der Revolution von 1848 zu einer der radikalsten und fruchtbarsten Phasen der Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Unter dem Eindruck der repressiven Züge des Preußischen Staates und der zuneh…

  • Politics, Religion, and Art: Hegelian Debates

    Douglas MoggachBOOKPolitics, Religion, and Art2011

  • Politics, religion, and art: Hegelian debates

    Douglas MoggachBOOKPolitics, religion, and art2011

  • The Young Karl Marx: German Philosophy, Modern Politics, and Human Flourishing

    Douglas MoggachARTICLEThe English Historical Review2009Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Young Karl Marx: German Philosophy, Modern Politics, and Human Flourishing Get access The Young Karl Marx: German Philosophy, Modern Politics, and Human Flourishing, by David Leopold (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2007; pp. 315. £50). Douglas Moggach Douglas Moggach University of Ottawa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 507, April 2009, Page…

  • Freedom and Perfection: German Debates on the State in the Eighteenth Century

    Open AccessDouglas MoggachARTICLECanadian Journal of Political…2009Cited by: 7References: 28

    This paper explores eighteenth-century German debates on the relation of freedom and perfection in the course of which Kant works out his juridical theory. It contrasts the perfectionist ideas of political activity in Christian Wolff and Karl von Dalberg (a historically important but neglected figure), with Fichte's program inThe Closed Commercial State(1800), distinguishing logics of political intervention. Examining insufficiently recognized as…

  • The New Hegelians: Politics and Philosophy in the Hegelian School

    Open AccessDouglas MoggachBOOKNew Hegelians2006

    The period leading up to the Revolutions of 1848 was a seminal moment in the history of political thought, demarcating the ideological currents and defining the problems of freedom and social cohesion which are among the key issues of modern politics. This 2006 anthology offers research on Hegel's followers in the 1830s and 1840s. With essays by philosophers, political scientists, and historians from Europe and North America, it pays special atte…

  • The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer

    Open AccessDouglas MoggachBOOKThe philosophy and politics of…2003

    This is a comprehensive study in English of Bruno Bauer, a leading Hegelian philosopher of the 1840s. Inspired by the philosophy of Hegel, Bauer led an intellectual revolution that influenced Marx and shaped modern secular humanism. In the process he offered a republican alternative to liberalism and socialism, criticized religious and political conservatism and set out the terms for the development of modern mass and industrial society. Based on…

  • Republican Rigorism: Hegelian Views of Emancipation in 1848

    Douglas MoggachARTICLEThe European Legacy2003

    This paper examines whether Bruno Bauer's critical assessment of Jewish emancipation in Prussia is consistent with his other republican writings in the 1840s. It argues that Bauer's political position is a form of republican rigorism, according to which human emancipation requires identification with universal interests, and not the defence of particular identities. Rigorism involves the elimination of internal as well as external heteronomous in…

  • The philosophy and politics of Bruno Bauer

    Douglas MoggachBOOKThe philosophy and politics of…2002

  • The Social Question and the Democratic Revolution: Marx and the Legacy of 1848

    Paul Leduc Browne, Douglas Moggach et al.BOOKSocial Question and the…2000

    The revolutionary movements of 1848 viewed the political cataclysm of continental Europe as an explosion of liberty, a new age of freedom and equality. This collection focuses on the relationship between democratic and socialist currents in 1848, seeking to reassess the relevance of these currents to the present era of global economic liberalism

  • Concepts Of Sovereignty: Historical Reflections on State, Economy and Culture

    Douglas MoggachARTICLEStudies in Political Economy1999Cited by: 1

    Forged in the great political struggles which have defined the modern world, and in the cataclysmic processes which have shaped capitalist domestic and international markets, sovereign states are now undergoing enormous deconstructive pressures. Previously submerged by the power of the state, or integrated into a common economic territory, ethnic, nationalist, and regionalist forces are finding new expression, and are undermining many apparently …

  • Reciprocity, Elicitation, Recognition: The Thematics of Intersubjectivity in the Early Fichte

    Open AccessDouglas MoggachARTICLEDialogue1999Cited by: 1References: 5

    Cet article explore les liens entre laWissenschaftslehre (WL)de Fichte, en 1794-1795, et sesFondements du droit naturel (Grundlage des Naturrechts - GNR)de 1796-1797. Nous examinons la façon dont le concept de réciprocité dansWLaide à expliquer la pensée développée par Fichte dansGNRau sujet de l'action intersubjective et de la sphère du droit, et montrons que certaines difficultés conceptuelles dans le premier texte expliquent des tensions irrés…

  • Machiavelli's VirtueHarvey C. Mansfield Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, pp. xvi, 371

    Open AccessDouglas MoggachARTICLECanadian Journal of Political…1997

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  • Hegel and the enlightenment project

    Douglas Moggach, Sven‐eric LledmanARTICLEThe European Legacy1997Cited by: 2References: 3

    (1997). Hegel and the enlightenment project. The European Legacy: Vol. 2, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 538-543

  • Hegel and Habermas

    Douglas MoggachARTICLEThe European Legacy1997References: 2

  • Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study

    Douglas Moggach, Kevin B Anderson et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1996