Description: Actual and the Rational : Hegel and Objective Spirit, Hardcover by Kervegan, Jean-Francois; Ginsburg, Daniela (TRN); Shuster, Martin (TRN), ISBN 022602380X, ISBN-13 9780226023809, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US One of Hegel’s most controversial and confounding claims is that “the real is rational and the rational is real.” In this book, one of the world’s leading scholars of Hegel, Jean-François Kervégan, offers a thorough analysis and explanation of that claim, along the way delivering a compelling account of modern social, political, and ethical life. ?Kervégan begins with Hegel’s term “objective spirit,” the public manifestation of our deepest commitments, the binding norms that shape our existence as subjects and agents. He examines objective spirit in three realms: the notion of right, the theory of society, and the state. In conversation with Tocqueville and other theorists of democracy, whether in the Anglophone world or in Europe, Kervégan shows how Hegel—often associated with grand metaphysical ideas—actually had a specific conception of civil society and the state. In Hegel’s view, public institutions represent the fulfillment of deep subjective needs—and in that sense, demonstrate that the real is the rational, because what surrounds us is the product of our collective mindedness. This groundbreaking analysis will guide the study of Hegel and nineteenth-century political thought for years to come.
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Book Title: Actual and the Rational : Hegel and Objective Spirit
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Name: Actual and the RATIONAL : Hegel and Objective Spirit
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Social, Epistemology, Individual Philosophers, General, History & Surveys / Modern, Jurisprudence, Political
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 0.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 25 Oz
Author: Jean-Francois Kervegan
Subject Area: Law, Philosophy
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
