| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 384 pages) |
| Note |
Translated from the French. |
| Language |
Translated from the French. |
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"Originally published as L'effectif et le rationnel: Hegel et l'esprit objectif, © Librairie Philosphique J. Vrin, Paris, 2008." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-380) and index. |
| Summary |
"One of Hegel's most controversial and confounding claims is that 'the real is rational and the rational is real.' In this book, one of the world's leading scholars of Hegel, Jean-François Kervégan, offers a thorough analysis and explanation of that claim, along the way delivering a compelling account of modern social, political, and ethical life. Kervégan begins with Hegel's term 'objective spirit,' the public manifestation of our deepest commitments, the binding norms that shape our existence as subjects and agents. He examines objective spirit in three realms: the notion of right, the theory of society, and the state. In conversation with Tocqueville and other theorists of democracy, whether in the Anglophone world or in Europe, Kervégan shows how Hegel--often associated with grand metaphysical ideas--actually had a specific conception of civil society and the state. In Hegel's view, public institutions represent the fulfillment of deep subjective needs--and in that sense, demonstrate that the real is the rational, because what surrounds us is the product of our collective mindedness. This groundbreaking analysis will guide the study of Hegel and nineteenth-century political thought for years to come."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Preface: Hegel without metaphysics? -- Prologue. The actual and the rational -- Part I: The law: the positivity of abstraction. Law: its concept and actualizations -- Between nature and history: the law -- Contract: the legal conditions of the social -- Part II: The vitality and flaws of the social. "Citoyen" versus "bourgeois"? The quest for the "spirit of the whole" -- The state of law: civil society -- "Ethicality lost in its extremes" -- Part III: The state and the political. Tocqueville-Hegel: a silent dialogue on modernity -- A theory of representation -- Beyond democracy -- Part IV: Figures of subjectivity in objective spirit: normativity and institutions. the truth of morality -- The conditions of political subjectivity -- Subjects, norms, and institutions: what is an ethical life? -- Epilogue: the passion of the concept. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjhyXcjqGcXKyp9GC4KBP |
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Law -- Philosophy.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Objectivity.
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Subjectivity.
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LAW -- General. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. |
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Law -- Philosophy |
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Objectivity |
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Political science -- Philosophy |
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Subjectivity |
| Added Author |
Ginsburg, Daniela, translator.
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Shuster, Martin, translator.
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| Added Title |
Effectif et le rationnel. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kervégan, Jean-François. Effectif et le rationnel. English. Actual and the rational. ©2018 9780226023809 (DLC) 2017059969 (OCoLC)1004254830 |
| ISBN |
9780226023946 (electronic bk.) |
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022602394X (electronic bk.) |
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9780226023809 (hardcover) |
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022602380X (hardcover) |
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