Hegel and the History of Political Philosophy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Gary K. Browning

   Pages 1-15

3. Plato and Hegel: Reason, Redemption and Political Construction

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   Pages 16-33

4. Hegel’s Plato: The Owl of Minerva, Political Philosophy and History

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   Pages 34-45

5. Hobbes, Hegel and the Modern Self

   • Gary K. Browning

   Pages 46-62

6. Stirner’s Critique of Hegel: Geist and the Egoistic Exorcist

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   Pages 63-74

7. The German Ideology, Stirner and Hegel: The Theory of History and the History of Theory

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   Pages 75-92

8. Good and Bad Infinites in Hegel and Marx

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   Pages 93-105

9. New Leviathans for Old: Collingwood’s Hobbes and the Spirit of Hegel

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   Pages 106-117

10. Lyotard’s Hegel and the Dialectic of Modernity

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    Pages 118-127

11. Rawls and Hegel: The Reasonable and the Rational in Theory and Practice

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    Pages 128-142

12. Conclusion: Politics, Philosophy and Critique

    • Gary K. Browning

    Pages 143-157

13. Back Matter

    Pages 158-185

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This book relates Hegel to preceding and succeeding political philosophers. The Hegelian notion of the interdependence 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 showing its critical assimilation of Plato and Hobbes, and by studies reviewing subsequent critiques of its 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.

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Hegel
• ideology
• John Rawls
• Karl Marx
• Leviathan
• Lyotard
• Marx
• philosophy
• Plato
• political philosophy
• political theory
• politics
• Thomas Hobbes

'In this impressive comparative study, Gary Browning sets Hegel's political philosophy against the tradition that preceded him (Plato, Hobbes) and the one he has helped to shape (Stirner, Marx, Collingwood, Lyotard and even as Browning argues, Rawls). In so doing, Browning helps us arrive at a balanced assessment of Hegel's achievement, his place in the history of political thought, and his own contribution as an historian of ideas. This collection of essays provides an excellent way in to Hegel's political philosophy for those who are familiar with other figures from the tradition, whilst forcing Hegel scholars to test his ideas against different but related outlooks, and to question for themselves what is distinctive and living in the Hegelian position. It is accessible, well-informed and well-judged.' - Robert Sterne, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield Author of Hegel, Kant and the Structure of the Object, editor of G.W.F Hegel: Critical Assessments and past editor of the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain.

'Browning's excellent and informative collection of essays considers Hegel's thought.' - Ian Fraser, Political Studies

• Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

  Gary K. Browning

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

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