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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454572503321

Autore

Neuhouser Frederick

Titolo

Foundations of Hegel's social theory [[electronic resource] ] : actualizing freedom / / Frederick Neuhouser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000

ISBN

0-674-04145-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 337 p.)

Disciplina

301.01

Soggetti

Social sciences - Germany - Philosophy - History - 19th century

Sociology - Germany - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-332) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction 1. Hegel's Conception of Social Freedom: Preliminaries 2. Rousseau: Freedom, Dependence, and the General Will 3. The Subjective Component of Social Freedom 4. Objective Freedom, Part I: The Self-Determining Social Whole 5. Objective Freedom, Part II: Social Conditions of Individuals' Freedom 6. Hegel's Social Theory and Methodological Atomism 7. The Place of Moral Subjectivity in Ethical Life Notes Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study examines the philosophical foundations of Hegel's social theory by articulating the normative standards at work in his claim that the central social institutions of the modern era are rational or good.