Synopses & Reviews
This book relates Hegel to preceding and succeding political philosophers. The Hegelian notion of the interdependece of political philosophy and its history is demonstrated by the links established between Hegel and his predecessors and successors. Hegel's political theory is illuminated by essays which review critiques of his standpoint by Stirner, Marx and Collingwood. The relevance of Hegel to contemporary political philosophy is highlighted in essays which compare Hegel to Lyotard and Rawls.
Synopsis
This book relates Hegel to preceding and succeding political philosophers.
About the Author
Gary K. Browning is Professor of Politics at Oxford Brookes University.
Table of Contents
Introduction * Plato and Hegel: Reason, Redemption and Political Construction * Hegel's Plate: The Owl of Minerva, Political Philosophy and History * Hobbes, Hegel and the Modern Self * Stirner's Critique of Hegel:
Geist and the Egoistic Exorcist *
The German Ideology, Stirner and Hegel: The Theory of History and the History of Theory * Good and Bad Infinities in Hegel and Marx * New Leviathans for Old: Collingwood's Hobbes and the Spirit of Hegel * Lyotard's Hegel and the Dialectic of Modernity * Rawls and Hegel: The Reasonable and the Rational in Theory and Practice * Conclusion: Politics, Philosophy and Critique * Index