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591Individuals: the revisionary logic of Hegel's politicsIn Thom Brooks Sebastian Stein (ed.), Hegel's Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System, Oxford University Press. 2017.Interpretations of Hegel’s social and political thought tend to present Hegel as critic of modern individualism and defender of institutionalism or proto-communitarianism. Yet Hegel has praise for the historically emancipatory role of individualism and gives a positive role to individuals in his discussion of ethics and the state. Drawing on Hegel’s analysis of the category of ‘individual’ in his Logic, this chapter shows that Hegel criticizes the conception of ‘individual’ as a simple and argue…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
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Philosophy of Action |
Aesthetics |
Meta-Ethics |
19th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Philosophical Traditions |