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Hegel and the freedom of moderns

'Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns' shows how the philosopher was fully engaged in the political debates of his day. Losurdo argues that attempts to cast Hegel as a 'conservative' or a 'liberal' have obscured many aspects of Hegel's political thought
Print Book, English, ©2004
Duke University Press, Durham, ©2004
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xix, 378 pages ; 25 cm
9780822332534, 9780822332916, 0822332531, 0822332914
54111383
Hegel source abbreviations
I. Searching for the "authentic" Hegel
II. The philosophies of right : a turning point or continuity
III. Contractualism and the modern state
IV. Conservative or liberal? : a false dilemma
V. Hegel and the liberal tradition : two opposing interpretations of history
VI. The intellectual, property, and the social question
VII. Right, violence, and Notrecht
VIII. "Agora" and "Schole" : Rousseau, Hegel, and the liberal tradition
IX. School, division of labor, and modern man's freedom
X. Moral tension and the primacy of politics
XI. Legitimacy of the modern and rationality of the actual
XII. The second Thirty Years War and the "philosophical crusade" against Germany
XIII. Liberalism, conservatism, the French Revolution, and classic German philosophy
Translated from the Italian
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