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Title Hegel's world revolutions / Richard Bourke
Imprint Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 4 Geografi och historia  944 engelska    DUE 24-04-02  
Descript 321 sidor 23 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
"This book offers the first historical treatment of Hegel's political ideas since the 1970s. It completely revises our understanding of his response to the French Revolution, the most dramatic and significant event of his age. A fresh account of his take on the Revolution itself provides a new perspective on his thought as a whole. It also illuminates Hegel's relevance to modern politics. Dominant strands of post-War thought have taken the form of a repudiation of Hegel. This reaction has largely been based on dubious arguments and poor scholarship. The alternative analysis offered here contextualizes attempts to disparage Hegel as pursued by strands of critical theory associated with postmodernism. In the process, the book challenges recent onslaughts against so-called "Western" rationalism. It takes issue with the ambition to relativize all values and to represent knowledge as an effect of power"-- Provided by publisher
"A new account of the relevance of Hegel's ideas for today's world, countering the postwar anti-Hegel "insurgency"G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as religion, aesthetics and metaphysics. His most lasting contribution was his vision of history and politics. In Hegel's World Revolutions, Richard Bourke returns to Hegel's original arguments, clarifying their true import and illuminating their relevance to contemporary society. Bourke shows that central to Hegel's thought was his anatomy of the modern world. On the one hand he claimed that modernity was a deliverance from subjection, but on the other he saw it as having unleashed the spirit of critical reflection. Bourke explores this predicament in terms of a series of world revolutions that Hegel believed had ushered in the rise of civil society and the emergence of the constitutional state.Bourke interprets Hegel's thought, with particular reference to his philosophy of history, placing it in the context of his own time. He then recounts the reception of Hegel's political ideas, largely over the course of the twentieth century. Countering the postwar revolt against Hegel, Bourke argues that his disparagement by major philosophers has impoverished our approach to history and politics alike. Challenging the condescension of leading thinkers-from Heidegger and Popper to Lévi-Strauss and Foucault-the book revises prevailing views of the relationship between historical ideas and present circumstances"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 -- Political and social views
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
1789-1799
Franska revolutionen 1789-1799
Politisk filosofi
Revolutioner
Historiefilosofi
Litteraturreception
Revolutions
Révolutions
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence
History
Classmark 944.04
POL010000
ISBN/ISSN 9780691250182 inbunden
9780691253114
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