Nathan Ross

On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this erudite study, Ross considers the role of the concept of mechanism in the social and political philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel and his immediate predecessors in German political thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780415849081
• ISBN-10: 041584908X
• Artikelnr.: 37087750

Autorenporträt

Nathan Ross is currently on the faculty at DePaul University, and his work as a scholar is concerned with researching the social and political philosophies of Kant, Hegel and the German Romantics. He has published articles in Hegel-Jahrbuch, Idealistic Studies, and is currently researching the political implications of the theory of aesthetic experience in Kant, Schiller, Friedrich Schlegel and Hölderlin.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Critique of Mechanism in the Political Philosophy of
Herder and German Romanticism
Chapter Two: The Political Function of Machine Metaphors in Hegel's Early
Writings
Mechanism in Religious Practice
Chapter Three: The Mechanization of Labor and the Birth of Modern
Ethicality in Hegel's Jena Political Writings
Chapter Four: Mechanism and the Problem of Self-Determination in Hegel's
Logic
Chapter Five: The Modern State as Absolute Mechanism: Hegel's Logical
Insight into the Relation of Civil Society and the State
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index