Civic Identity in the Juridical Society
On Hegelianism as Discipline for the Romantic Mind
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6350834 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael A Mosher (University of Washington), Michael Mosher (0000-0001-8039-0691, University of Washington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 117-132 |
| Publication date | 1983-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0090591783011001007 |
| OpenAlex | W2058937006 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
The recent flourishing of Anglo-American scholarship in Hegel's moral and political thought prompts speculation concerning why its audience, or what in its history, suggests Hegelianism as a source of advice. ' Among other reasons is the following: Hegel provides instruction for the excesses of the romantic in politics. He represents a form of solace for the recanting romantic communalist as well as for the romantic rebel against community. Hegel is a great rationalist excoriator of romantic excess. Yet simultaneously he is a philosopher whose speculative program is almost wholly determined by the literary and political problems of the romantic mind. Hegel appropriat[ed] for reason all that romanticism had claimed for art. His Phenomenology is paradoxically the most romantic philosophical attack on romanticism.2 This attack nevertheless left in place an irretrievably romantic understanding of human action. Retaining this portrait of action, the Philosophy of Right shows romantics how ethical and political commitments follow that avoid the excesses either of the communalist or the individualist. Hegel's strategy can be commended, however, without his conclusions. He concludes by overloading the state with the burden of reconstituting a polis experience (especially exemplified in the powers of the sovereign at war)3 and therefore providing for its citizens the kinds of meaning that are often thought to flow only from a more unitary public culture than the one Hegel identifies as characteristically modern. A more appropriate middle-level strategy would focus on the
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Individualism · Literature · Phenomenology (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Romance · Romanticism · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 1984 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |