Geraint Parry and Raymond Plant both Lecturer in Philosophy in the University of Manchester

Chapter 1 Civil Theology and Political Culture; Chapter 2 Folk Religion and Political Analysis; Chapter 3 Towards a Perspective on History; Chapter 4 Towards the Transfiguration of Politics; Chapter 5 A System of Philosophical Politics; Chapter 6 Reason., Reconciliation and Community; Chapter 7 Philosophy and Community; Chapter 8 Transfiguration or Mystification?;

First published in 1973 this volume demonstrates the interconnection between Hegel's political and metaphysical writings. This book provides a point of entry into Hegel's system of ideas. Condemned unread, and when read far too often misunderstood, Hegel's thought has once more begun to make its impact on contemporary ideas with many of today's most important social and political thinkers.