Hegel and Capitalism

by Andrew Buchwalter (Editor)

Overview

Bringing together scholars from varying perspectives, this book examines the value of Hegel's thought for understanding and assessing capitalism, both as encountered by Hegel himself and in forms it takes today. The contributors consider Hegel's complex and multifaceted appraisal of modern market societies, which he understands variously as a condition for a proper account of individual freedom, the framework for a productive account of social interdependency, and the breeding ground for a host of social pathologies concerning individual consumption, labor conditions, and disparities in wealth between the rich and poor. Hegel's ideas about the topic are situated in the context of work by other important thinkers, including Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, J. G. Fichte, Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Theodor Adorno, along with contemporary social and economic theorists. Demonstrating the value of Hegel's philosophy for addressing issues pertaining to capitalism today, the essays bring insight to contemporary concerns such as resurgent neoliberalism, economic globalization, the subordination of ever more spheres of human life to the logic of economic imperatives, and the adequacy of models of utility maximization for comprehending contemporary market societies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438458762
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	07/02/2016
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Andrew Buchwalter is Presidential Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Florida. He is the author of Dialectics, Politics, and the Contemporary Value of Hegel's Practical Philosophy and the editor of Hegel and Global Justice.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Hegel and Capitalism
Andrew Buchwalter

1. Hegel Discovers Capitalism: Critique of Individualism, Social Labor, and Reification during the Jena Period (1801–1807)
Michalis Skomvoulis

2. Beyond Recognition in Capitalism: From Violence and Caprice to Recognition and Solidarity
Kohei Saito

3. Anonymity, Responsibility, and the Many Faces of Capitalism: Hegel and the Crisis of the Modern Self
Ardis B. Collins

4. The Purest Inequality: Hegel’s Critique of the Labor Contract and Capitalism
Nicholas Mowad

5. Hegel’s Notion of Abstract Labor in the Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Giorgio Cesarale

6. Hegel’s Torment: Poverty and the Rationality of the Modern State
C. J. Pereira Di Salvo

7. Capitalism as Deficient Modernity: Hegel against the Modern Economy
Michael J. Thompson

8. Economy and Ethical Community
Richard Dien Winfield

9. Two Ways of “Taming” the Market: Why Hegel Needs the Police and the Corporations
Lisa Herzog

10. Hegel’s Logical Critique of Capitalism: The Paradox of Dependence and the Model of Reciprocal Mediation
Nathan Ross

11. Hegel and Capitalism: Marxian Perspectives
Tony Smith

12. Hegel’s Ethic of Beruf and the Spirit of Capitalism
Louis Carré

Contributors
Index