An Ethical Modernity? : Hegel's Concept of Ethical Life Today.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Do We Know What Modernity Is? -- 2 The Essays -- Abbreviations of Hegel's Works -- References -- Chapter 1 The Authority of Conceptual Analysis in Hegelian Ethical Life -- 1 Introduction1 -- 2 Modern Ethical Life as the Realization of the Concept -- 3 Social Ontology and the Objective Authority of Concepts -- 4 "Essentially Contested" Concepts and Intersubjective Authority -- 5 Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 2 Slaves to Habit: the Positivity of Modern Ethical Life -- 1 Two Sides of Habit -- 2 Habit in Modernity -- 3 Social Habits: the Positivity of Ethical Life -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 3 The Concept of Judgment on the Legal Stage: an Alternative View of Hegel's Theory of Freedom -- 1 From Political to Legal Judgment -- 2 Revenge, Law and the Consciousness of Right -- 2.1 The Logic of the Forms of Judgment and Free Will -- 2.2 Revenge, Consciousness of Right, and Law -- 3 On the Dramaturgy of Procedure and Judgment -- 3.1 Judgment and State Authority -- 3.2 The Dramaturgy of the Procedure -- 3.3 Judicial Judgment and Justice in the Individual Case -- 4 Responsive Right and Political Judgment -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 4 Hegel's Ethical Life as the Attempt to Offer a Home to the Categorical Imperative -- 1 The First Moment of Ethical Life -- 2 The Second Moment of Ethical Life -- 3 Conclusion -- Abbreviations of Hegel's Writings -- References -- Chapter 5 Formalism and the Actuality of Freedom: on Kant and Hegel -- 1 Sittlichkeit as an Enigma -- 2 Hegel's Criticism of Practical Formalism -- 3 Formalism as Frustration of Actualizing Freedom -- 4 Hegel's Logic of Freedom -- 5 Hegel's Sittlichkeit as Rationalization of the Content: Overcoming the Unfreedom of Action.

Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 6 Hegel's Philosophy of the Modern Family: Fatal Families? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Family in a Hegelian Interpretation: Timely Nucleus in the Eternal Nature -- 3 Love as Felt Freedom? -- 4 The Freedom to Be Born, the Freedom to Die -- 5 Ironical Families -- 6 Hegel's Thought on Families Today -- Abbreviations of Hegel's Writings -- References -- Chapter 7 "The European Spirit": Some Remarks on the Idea of Europe from a Hegelian Point of View -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Reclamation of Guiding Cultural Ideas as a Challenge for the Philosophy of History -- 3 Europe-the Elephant Which We Seldom See? -- 4 Looking for Universally Valid European Values -- Abbreviations of Hegel's Writings -- References -- Chapter 8 The State and Ethical Life in Hegel's Philosophy -- 1 The State and the Family -- 2 The State and Civil Society -- 3 Patriotism, the State, and Religion -- 4 The State as a Political Power -- Abbreviations of Hegel's Writings -- References -- Chapter 9 "Sittlichkeit" in International Politics -- 1 Ambiguity of International Law -- 1.1 The Lack of a Supranational Sovereign Power -- 1.2 Tension between Welfare and Morality -- 1.3 International Civil Society -- 2 Cosmopolitanism or Nationalism? -- 3 Toward Perpetual Peace? -- 4 Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 10 Modern Philosophy and Philosophical Modernity: Hegel's Metaphilosophical Commitment -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Hegel's Vorsatz: Philosophy, Modernity, and Subjectivity -- 3 The Modern Shape of Philosophy -- 4 The Philosophical Shape of Modernity -- Abbreviations of Hegel's Writings -- References -- Supplement: Hegel's Travels to Bohemia -- 1 The First Impressions of Prague -- 2 Hegel's Last Trip Abroad to Teplice, Prague, and Carlsbad -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

An Ethical Modernity? offers a new view of Hegel's doctrine of ethical life (Sittlichkeit) in relation to modernity. In this collection of essays, the authors investigate various aspects of this relation and its importance for today's world.

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