| Modern Freedom: Hegel's Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy 2001 Edition Contributor(s): Peperzak, Adriaan T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0792370406 ISBN-13: 9780792370406 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $313.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2001 Annotation: This book, the result of 40 years of Hegel research, gives an integral interpretation of G.W.F. Hegel's mature practical philosophy as contained in his textbook, Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, published in 1820, and the courses he gave on the same subject between 1817 and 1830. The content of Hegel's book encompasses not only right' or law' in our sense of those words, but also morality, the family, economics (civil society'), politics (the state' and international politics'), and world history. These matters are treated philosophically, that is, the treatise is dominated by an implicit logic, which has puzzled all scholars who have tried to reconstruct Hegel's arguments. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Freedom - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Law | International |
| Dewey: 193 |
| LCCN: 2001029839 |
| Series: Studies in German Idealism |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.56 lbs) 675 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: '0 {oc; paxuc;, O 't XVll a1(pft (Hippokrates) That life is short needs no proof when we are engaged in ambitious projects. When I began this book, almost forty years ago, I did not forsee that its completion would take such a long time, although I was well aware that some of Hegel's texts stubbornly resist a thorough deciphering of their meaning and argumenta- tion. Having written a dissertation on the young Hegel's moral, political, and religious philosophy (Lejeune Hegel et la vision morale du monde, 1960'), I was asked to teach ethics, social philosophy, and philosophy of law at various universities of The Netherlands. While studying and teaching the classics of ethics and politics, I began to focus on the textbook that Hegel had written for his courses on practical philosophy: Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820). The first result of my research was a study of the historical and philosophical context of this text (Philosophy and Politics: A Commentary on the Preface to Hegel's Philosophy of Right, 1981/1987), but the interpretation of its content proceeded slowly. While con- ferences and colloquia occasioned fragments whose traces can be found in the following pages, the ramifications of Hegel's thought and the overwhelming amount of secondary literature demanded a great deal of time and attention and other interests continued to interrupt the project. |