Freedom, in Context: Time, History, and Necessity in Hegel
G.W.F. Hegel was a radical and incisive thinker, whose ideas have shaped the face of political philosophy. With questions of political agency and free will as urgent as ever, this book reintroduces Hegel's ideas of freedom and the weight that it carries in the political, economic and social contexts of the 21st century.

Examining the concept of freedom from a Hegelian Marxist perspective, Freedom, in Context argues that the essential relation between self-determination and causal necessity is a multifaceted process to be viewed through historical, temporal, logical and ontological lenses. Using examples from the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental justice, economic inequality, and democratic uprisings in Iran, the value of Hegel's philosophy is emphasised in contexts beyond the colonial, Eurocentric tendencies of his worldview. Emphasising the central role of temporality and history in the conception of free will gives this new reading of Hegel real practical import for the pressing political issues of our time.

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Freedom, in Context: Time, History, and Necessity in Hegel
G.W.F. Hegel was a radical and incisive thinker, whose ideas have shaped the face of political philosophy. With questions of political agency and free will as urgent as ever, this book reintroduces Hegel's ideas of freedom and the weight that it carries in the political, economic and social contexts of the 21st century.

Examining the concept of freedom from a Hegelian Marxist perspective, Freedom, in Context argues that the essential relation between self-determination and causal necessity is a multifaceted process to be viewed through historical, temporal, logical and ontological lenses. Using examples from the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental justice, economic inequality, and democratic uprisings in Iran, the value of Hegel's philosophy is emphasised in contexts beyond the colonial, Eurocentric tendencies of his worldview. Emphasising the central role of temporality and history in the conception of free will gives this new reading of Hegel real practical import for the pressing political issues of our time.

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Freedom, in Context: Time, History, and Necessity in Hegel

Freedom, in Context: Time, History, and Necessity in Hegel

by Borna Radnik
Freedom, in Context: Time, History, and Necessity in Hegel

Freedom, in Context: Time, History, and Necessity in Hegel

by Borna Radnik

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G.W.F. Hegel was a radical and incisive thinker, whose ideas have shaped the face of political philosophy. With questions of political agency and free will as urgent as ever, this book reintroduces Hegel's ideas of freedom and the weight that it carries in the political, economic and social contexts of the 21st century.

Examining the concept of freedom from a Hegelian Marxist perspective, Freedom, in Context argues that the essential relation between self-determination and causal necessity is a multifaceted process to be viewed through historical, temporal, logical and ontological lenses. Using examples from the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental justice, economic inequality, and democratic uprisings in Iran, the value of Hegel's philosophy is emphasised in contexts beyond the colonial, Eurocentric tendencies of his worldview. Emphasising the central role of temporality and history in the conception of free will gives this new reading of Hegel real practical import for the pressing political issues of our time.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350430082
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 05/28/2026
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Borna Radnik has a Ph.D. from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, at Kingston University London, UK. He has published with Radical Philosophy, Continental Thought and Theory, and Crisis and Critique.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Catherine Malabou Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Dialectic of Freedom and Necessity
1. Freedom, Necessity, Self-Reflexive Historicity
2. Freedom's Logical Temporality and Historicity
3. Christianity and The Temporality of Freedom
4. Political-Social Freedom and Philosophy's Historicity
Conclusion: Hegel, Marx, and Hegelian Marxism

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