Hegel: Religion, Economics, and the Politics of Spirit, 1770–1807

by Laurence Dickey

• ISBN13: 9780521389129
• ISBN10: 0521389127
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-11-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This major study of Hegel's intellectual development up to the writing of The Phenomonology of Spirit argues that his work is best understood in the context of the liberalisation of German Protestantism in the eighteenth century.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Hegel in a Protestant cultural context

Part I. Hegel's Wü

rttemberg: 'Civil Millenarianism' and the Two Faces of Protestant Civil Piety: 1. The religious culture of Old-Wü

rttemberg: (i) Christian eschatology and 'down-to-earth' Pietism

2. The religious culture of Old-Wü

rttemberg: (ii) J. A. Bengel and the theology of the divine economy

3. The political culture of Old-Wü

rttemberg: The Alte Recht tradition

Part II. Wü

rttemberg's Hegel: Applied Theology and Social Analysis: 4. The writings of the 1790s: the 'old man' and the 'young Hegel'

Part III. Toward the Phenomenology: Sittlichkeit becomes a problem in social and political theory: 5. Hegel discovers the economy

6. Sittlichkeit reconsidered: (i) the essay on Natural Law

7. Sittlichkeit reconsidered: (ii) the essay on Ethical Life

8. Hegel's conception of the division of labor

Epilogue

Abbreviations

Notes

Index.