Love and Politics: Re-interpreting Hegel

Love and Politics: Re-interpreting Hegel

by Alice Ormiston
Love and Politics: Re-interpreting Hegel

Love and Politics: Re-interpreting Hegel

by Alice Ormiston

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Overview

Alice Ormiston's Love and Politics argues that modern politics is rooted not merely in the pursuit of power, but that it is essentially underpinned by the experience of love. Hegel understood love as a principle that unites reason and emotion, and self and other, and that provides the foundation for a deep sense of connectedness to the world and for genuine acts of autonomy. Through an original and highly accessible interpretation of Hegel's works, Ormiston shows how the modern commitment to individual rights and freedoms can only be adequately understood by reference to the experience of love that lies at the foundation of the modern subject and its political expression in acts of conscience. Hegel's thought thus joins forces with feminist arguments for an embodied theory of the subject and for a focus on empathy in political reasoning, with republican concerns about democracy and civic education, and with postmodern concerns about the otherness of certain experiences and forms of knowledge. Ormiston's book offers a developed concept of the subject that can serve as a foundation for resistance to problems of our time, including atomism and instrumental rationality, the ills of an unfettered capitalism, and the reality of a radical evil.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791485194
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 02/01/2012
Series: SUNY series in Hegelian Studies
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 174
File size: 276 KB

About the Author

Alice Ormiston is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carleton University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Hegel in the Context of Modernity

1. "The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate": Toward a Reconsideration of the Role of Love in Hegel

Introduction
Hegel's Critique of Reflective Rationality
Love as the Overcoming of Reflective Rationality
The Failure of Love as Overcoming
Conclusion: Love, Will, and the Task of the Mature Philosophy

2. From Christianity to Conscience: The Role of Love in Hegel's Phenomenology

Toward a Philosophy of Unity: Hegel and the Transcendental Intuition
Phenomenology of Spirit: The Journey of the Modern Will
Conclusion: The Inadequacy of Intuition as a Philosophical Standpoint
Appendix: The Negative Trajectory of Enlightenment Consciousness

3. Philosophy of Right: The Final Reconciliation of Love and Reason

The Philosophical Standpoint: From Intuition to Notion
The Relationship between Experience and Notional Philosophy
Love and Logic in The Philosophy of Right
Appendix: Hegel and the Woman Question

4. The Historical "Failure" of Ethical Life: A View from Within Hegel

The Historical "Failure" of Ethical Life: The Split between Love and the Will
Hegel's Explanation of the "Failure"
Hegel's Explanation and the Problems of Our Time

5. Hegel and the Dual Task of Today

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

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