The Owl and the Rooster

Hegel's Transformative Political Science

Bibliographic Data

ID23476759
AuthorsAlan Brudner (University of Toronto, corresponding author)
Year2017
Publication date2017-10-19
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOwl and the Rooster (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108178549
OpenAlexW3173340404
ISBN9781108178549
Open LibraryOL34559948M
LanguageEN
Citations received3

Since 1945, there have been two waves of Anglo-American writing on Hegel's political thought. The first defended it against works portraying Hegel as an apologist of Prussian reaction and a theorist of totalitarian nationalism. The second presented Hegel as a civic humanist critic of liberalism in the tradition of Rousseau. The first suppressed elements of Hegel's thought that challenge liberalism's individualistic premises; the second downplayed Hegel's theism. This book recovers what was lost in each wave. It restores aspects of Hegel's political thought unsettling to liberal beliefs, yet that lead to a state more liberal than Locke's and Kant's, which retain authoritarian elements. It also scrutinizes Hegel's claim to have justified theism to rational insight, hence to have made it conformable to Enlightenment standards of admissible public discourse. And it seeks to show how, for Hegel, the wholeness unique to divinity is realizable among humans without concession or compromise and what role philosophy must play in its final achievement. Lastly, we are shown what form Hegel's philosophy can take in a world not yet prepared for his science. Here is Hegel's political thought undistorted.

Enlightenment · Epistemology · Geist · Hegelianism · Humanism · Individualism · Liberalism · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Theism · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · georg wilhelm friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

Tools

Open DOILibgen