Using a detailed analysis of key Hegelian texts, Robert Pippin reveals the bearing of Hegel's claims on many contemporary issues.
Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago.
Acknowledgements; Part I. Spirit: 1. Introduction: leading a free life; 2. Naturalness and mindedness: Hegel's compatibilism; 3. On giving oneself the law; 4. The actualization of freedom; Part II. Freedom: 5. The freedom of the will: Psychological dimensions; 6. The freedom of the will: social dimensions; Part III. Sociality: 7. Hegelian sociality: recognitive status; 8. Recognition and politics; 9. Institutional rationality; 10. Concluding remarks.