Robert Fine

Political Investigations

Hegel, Marx and Arendt

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book Robert Fine reviews three great studies of modern political life: Hegel's "Elements of the Philosophy of Right", Marx's Capital" and Hannah Arendt's "Origins of Totalitarianism." The book not only offers a reinterpretation of these individual texts, but shows what is revealed when these texts are freed from their intellectual isolation and read together as a living unity. In Fine's account all three emerge as "critical texts" which contrast the great promise of modern politics - freedom, equality, solidarity - with the grubbier reality of domination and violence. They are all revealed as "empirical" works which analyze the actual forms of political modernity; as "scientific" works which are not content merely with describing external appearances; as "dynamic" works concerned with the movement and trajectory of modern politics; and finally as "unmasking texts" which not only address the illusions of modern politics but also the illusion of unmasking itself.

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In this highly innovative book Robert Fine compares and combines three great studies of modern political life: Hegel's 'Elements of the Philosophy of Right', Marx's 'Capital' and Hannah Arendt's 'Origins of Totalitarianism'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm
• Gewicht: 5g
• ISBN-13: 9780415239080
• ISBN-10: 0415239087
• Artikelnr.: 21616304

Autorenporträt

Robert Fine is Convenor of the MA in Social and Political Thought and Director of the Centre for Social Theory at the University of Warwick. He is author of Democracy and the Rule of Law: Liberal Ideals and Marxist Critiques (Pluto) and Beyond Apartheid: Labour and Liberation in South Africa (Pluto). He is co-editor of Social Theory after the Holocaust (Liverpool University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Reading and Misreading Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Chapter 2 The Idea of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Chapter 3 Hegel and Kant
Chapter 4 State and Revolution
Chapter 5 Right and Value
Chapter 6 Totalitarianism and the Rational State
Chapter 7 State and Revolution Revisited
Chapter 8 Kant's Cosmopolitan Ideal and Hegel's Critique
Chapter 9 Arendt's Critical Cosmopolitanism