The actual and the rational : Hegel and objective spirit /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kervégan, Jean-François (Author)
Other Authors:	Ginsburg, Daniela (Translator), Shuster, Martin (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Subjects:	Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, > 1770-1831. Law > Philosophy. Political science > Philosophy. Objectivity. Subjectivity. Law (Philosophical concept) LAW / General.

Table of 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.