G.W.F. Hegel: Modernity and Politics / Edition 296

by Tatiana Yu. Danilchenko Packey J. Dee Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame

Overview

At a time when "modernity" has become a deeply contested notion, G.W.F. Hegel: Modernity and Politics presents Hegel as the quintessential philosopher of modernity, highlighting his political writings that culminated in the Philosophy of Right. Fred R. Dallmayr deftly argues that, for Hegel, modernity resided in the growth of human freedom—a freedom anchored in public responsibility and social justice, the "high road" of modernity. This outlook remains politically relevant in our globalizing age as an antidote to a "predatory" mode of globalization that celebrates economic self-interest. With a new introduction, this revised edition interprets Hegel's "postmodern" legacy not as the move from spirit to matter, nor from holism to particularism, but as the dissemination of the liberating spirit in the capillaries of democratic lifeworlds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742521360
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/23/2002
Series:	Modernity and Political Thought
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 9.32(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Fred R. Dallmayr is Packey Dee Professor of Political Theory at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Toward a Modern Polis: Hegel's Evolving Political Thought
Chapter 3 Minerva at Dusk: Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Chapter 4 Effective History: Hegel's Heirs and Critics
Chapter 5 Minerva at Dawn: Hegel's Political Thought Today