Hegel: Political Writings

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

• ISBN13: 9780521459754
• ISBN10: 0521459753
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This major addition to the series of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought seeks to give students with no specialist knowledge access to both the practical and the metaphysical aspects of Hegel's political thought. The ethical and metaphysical texts in this collection both illuminate and contrast with those political and historical texts in which Hegel draws important conclusions about the modern world from remarkable comparative analyses of recent developments in England, France and Germany. The translator of these texts, H. B. Nisbet, was responsible for the acclaimed rendition of Hegel's Philosophy of Right already published in this series, and Lawrence Dickey's lucid editorial commentary introduces this distinctive corpus of political writing by one of the very greatest thinkers in the European tradition. A full chronology, explanatory annotation, glossary and bibliography are appended to aid the student reader.

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