Political Investigations
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780203995471
Subjects: Authoritarianism; Equality; Solidarity; Totalitarianism; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Liberty
Description: In this unusual book R D Fine reviews three great studies of modern political life: Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Marx's Capital and Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Reading and misreading Hegel's Philosophy of Right; 2 The idea of Hegel's Philosophy of Right; 3 Hegel and Kant natural law and the science of right; 4 State and revolution Hegel Rousseau Marx; 5 Right and value unity of Hegel and Marx; 6 Totalitarianism and the rational state Arendt; 7 State and revolution revisited Arendt; 8 Kant's cosmopolitan ideal and Hegel's critique; 9 Arendt's critical cosmopolitanism; Bibliography; Index.