Hegel: Political Writings

by Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel , Edited by Lawrence Dickey , H. B. Nisbet

• ISBN13: 9780521453691
• ISBN10: 0521453690
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

With a full chronology, general introduction, explanatory annotation, glossary and bibliography, this volume seeks to give students with no specialist knowledge access to both the practical and metaphysical aspects of Hegel's political thought. This collection gathers together for the first time in English translation Hegel's most important political writings, other than the Philosophy of Right, and provides insights into how Hegel's educational and religious views conflicted with the political values around which Prussian authorities organized their authoritarian regime.

Table of Contents

Editors' note	vi
General introduction	vii
Chronology of Hegel's life and career	xlii
Translator's preface	xlv
List of abbreviations	xlix
The Texts
The Magistrates should be Elected by the People (1798)	1	(5)
The German Constitution (1798--1802)	6	(96)
On the Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law, on its Place in Practical Philosophy, and its Relation to the Positive Sciences of Right (1802--1803)	102	(79)
Inaugural Address, Delivered at the University of Berlin (22 October 1818)	181	(5)
Address on the Tercentenary of the Submission of the Augsburg Confession (25 June 1830)	186	(11)
Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1827--1831)	197	(28)
The Relationship of Religion to the State (1831)	225	(9)
On the English Reform Bill (1831)	234	(37)
Editorial notes	271	(56)
Glossary	327	(12)
Bibliography of works cited in this edition	339	(6)
Index of names	345	(7)
Index of subjects	352