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Blurb: “Hegel’s Philosophy of Right was his last systematic work and the most complete statement of his mature views on ethical and political philosophy. The text explores the relationships between three distinct conceptions of human freedom: persons as possessing contract rights, subjects as reflective moral agents, and individuals as members of an ethical community. It strongly influenced the early Marx and debates over liberalism and communitarianism that arose in the latter half of the twentieth century.

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of the Philosophy of Right, the 18 essays in this volume by contemporary scholars examine the nature and impact of Hegel’s text. They examine a diverse array of topics, ranging from Hegel’s account of rights, religious freedom, gender, the state, history, and naturalism to some hitherto relatively overlooked topics such as Hegel and Luther, art and nationality, and Hegel and the market. Each contribution also pays homage to the work of Terry Pinkard, who, as a foremost interpreter and scholar of Hegel’s thought, revived and reinvented the contemporary field of Hegel studies.”

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Editors’ Introduction Dean Moyar, Kate Padgett Walsh, and Sebastian Rand

Part 1: The Frame of Right

1. Mind your Ps and Qs: Thinking through Hegel on Provisionality and Qualification Lydia Goehr

2. “This is the very essence of the Reformation: Man in his very nature is destined to be free”: Hegel, Luther, and Freedom Robert Stern

3. Reading the Philosophy of Right in light of the Logic: Hegel on the Possibility of Multiple Modernities Arash Abazari

4. Objective Spirit and Nature Ludwig Siep

Part 2: From Formal Right to the Idea of Life

5. The Value of a Right: Status and Equivalence in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right Dean Moyar

6. A Withering of the Rose in the Cross of the Present: The Logical Structure of Liberal Capitalism’s Destruction of Ethical Life Jay Bernstein

7. True Right Against Formal Right. The Body of Right and the Limits of Property Thomas Khurana

Part 3: Ethical Life

8. The Institution of Sittlichkeit Jean-François Kervegan

9. The Significance of Plato for a “Disenchanted Aristotelian” Reading of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right Paul Redding

10. No Utopia: Hegel on the Gendered Division of Labor Andreja Novakovic

11. Debt and the Limits of Freedom in Market Society Kate Padgett Walsh

12. Hegel, Allegiance, and the Problem of Ethical Standing Robert Pippin

13. Civil Society and its Discontents: Hegel and the Problem of Poverty Stephen Houlgate

14. The Organic Lives of States Antón Barba-Kay

Part 4: Right and World History

15. Poetry and the Sense of History: Images, Narrative, and Justice in the Philosophy of Right Lydia Moland

16. Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Historicity in Hegel’s State Christopher Yeomans

17. Alle sind frei. Hegel’s Philosophy of History as Liberal Apologetics Mark Alznauer

18. “Humanity needed it, and it appeared forthwith”: Hegel on World-Historical Technologies Sebastian Rand.

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2022 | Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger

October 5, 2022 Preceptor

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1. Platonic World

Plato on the Unity of the Virtues: A Dialectic Reading (2022)

July 6, 2022 Preceptor

Jenks, Rod
Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 128

Blurb
Plato, in the Protagoras, suggests that the virtues are profoundly unified yet also distinct. In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues: A Dialectic Reading, Rod Jenks argues that the way in which virtues are both one and many is finally ineffable. He shows how Plato countenances ineffability throughout his corpus. Jenks’s interpretation of Protagoras accounts for the otherwise-inexplicable inability of both Socrates and Protagoras to identify the bone of contention between them. Not only can the thesis not be argued for; it can’t even be properly stated. In this book, Jenks shows how the long exegesis on the Simonides poem is philosophically relevant. Further, he shows that both the parts-of-the-face analogy and the gold analogy are inadequate, arguing that Plato intends them to be so. Jenks explains why the unity thesis is supported by what most scholars agree are terrible arguments: that the virtues are both one and many. He explains why, despite the unity claim being profoundly elusive, Plato believes it to be crucial that we come to appreciate how virtue, which really does have parts, can also be profoundly one.