The actual and the rational Hegel and objective spirit / Jean-François Kervégan ; translated by Daniela Ginsburg and Martin Shuster.

Author/creator Kervégan, Jean-François
Other author Ginsburg, Daniela.
Other author Shuster, Martin.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2018]
Descriptionxxxiii, 384 pages ; 24 cm
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Uniform titleEffectif et le rationnel. English
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?.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 371-380) and index.
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Original versionOriginally published: Paris : Librairie philosphique J. Vrin, ©2008 under title L'effectif et le rationnel: Hegel et l'esprit objectif.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017059969
ISBN9780226023809 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226023946 (pbk.)

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