Hegel and the History of Political Philosophy

by Browning, Gary K.

• ISBN13: 9780312220235
• ISBN10: 0312220235
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book relates Hegel to preceding and succeding political philosophers. The Hegelian notion of the interdependece of political philosophy and its history is demonstrated by the links established between Hegel and his predecessors and successors. Hegel's political theory is illuminated by essays which review critiques of his standpoint by Stirner, Marx and Collingwood. The relevance of Hegel to contemporary political philosophy is highlighted in essays which compare Hegel to Lyotard and Rawls.

Author Biography

Gary K. Browning is Professor of Politics at Oxford Brookes University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	1	(15)
Plato and Hegel: Reason, Redemption and Political Construction	16	(18)
Hegel's Plato: The Owl of Minerva, Political Philosophy and History	34	(12)
Hobbes, Hegel and the Modern Self	46	(17)
Stirner's Critique of Hegel: Geist and the Egoistic Exorcist	63	(12)
The German Ideology, Stirner and Hegel: The Theory of History and the History of Theory	75	(18)
Good and Bad Infinites in Hegel and Marx	93	(13)
New Leviathans for Old: Collingwood's Hobbes and the Spirit of Hegel	106	(12)
Lyotard's Hegel and the Dialectic of Modernity	118	(10)
Rawls and Hegel: The Reasonable and the Rational in Theory and Practice	128	(15)
Conclusion: Politics, Philosophy and Critique	143	(15)
Notes and References	158	(23)
Index	181