Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy: Beyond Kantian Constructivism (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) PDF
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“Beyond Kantian Constructivism is the first attempt to put recent interpretations of Hegel into dialogue with the tradition of Kantian constructivism – an astonishing gap in the literature, which has now been filled by this important and timely collection, which effectively shows how Hegel’s idealism provides the conceptual resources to respond to the conceptual dichotomies of Kantian constructivism.” — Paolo Diego Bubbio, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Western Sydney University “Hegel and contemporary practical Philosophy is an impressive collection of contributions by the best English-speaking scholars of Hegel. It shows how Hegel’s practical philosophy clarifies the challenges at stake in contemporary discussions, for example between moral “constructivism” and “realism”, which are enlightened by the introduction of the volume.” — Jean-François Kervégan, Professor of Philosophy, University of Paris “James Gledhill and Sebastian Stein have produced a book that is not only a collection of excellent essays on Hegel and practical philosophy, but an excellent collection with a unifying focus on Kantian constructivism. It contains essays by prominent and by up-and-coming Hegel scholars, all of which are informed by relevant debates in analytic philosophy. It will henceforth be indispensable reading for anyone working on Hegel’s practical philosophy.” — Gordon Finlayson, Director, Centre of Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy While Kantian constructivism has become one of the most influential and systematic schools of thought in analytic moral and political philosophy, Hegelian approaches to practical normativity hold out the promise of building upon Kantian insights into individual self-determination while avoiding their dualistic tendencies. James Gledhill and Sebastian Stein unite distinguished scholars of German idealism and contemporary Anglophone practical philosophy with rising stars in the field to explore whether Hegelian idealist philosophy can offer the categories that analytic practical philosophy requires to overcome the contradictions that have so far plagued Kantian constructivism. The volume organizes the contributions into three parts. The first of these engages debates in metaethics regarding the relationship between realism and constructivism. The second part sees contributors draw on debates about the nature of political normativity, focusing primarily on the problems of historical contextualism, relativism, and critical reflection. The concluding part considers the application of the Hegelian framework to contemporary debates about specific ethical issues, including multiculturalism, democracy, and human rights. Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy contributes to the on-going debate about the importance of systematic philosophy in the context of practical philosophy, engages with contemporary discussions about the shape of a rational social order, and gauges the timeliness of Hegelian philosophy. This book is a must read for scholars interested in Hegel and in the contemporary tradition of Kantian constructivism in moral and political philosophy. James Gledhill teaches moral and political philosophy at the Universities of Amsterdam and Leiden. His research interests are in political philosophy and critical theory, with a focus on the work of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas and its relationship to a tradition of thought extending through Rousseau, Kant, and Hegel. He has published articles in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Public Issues, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Journal of Social Philosophy, Raisons Politiques and Social Theory and Practice, and recently contributed the entry on Rawls for the Cambridge Habermas Lexicon. Sebastian Stein is currently a postdoc at Heidelberg University sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a project on philosophical method. He has published articles on post-Kantian idealism in the Hegel Bulletin, the Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie and the Hegel Jahrbücher among others and has recently guest-edited a special volume of the Hegel Bulletin on Hegel and Aristotle. Together with Thom Brooks, Dr. Stein has edited and contributed to the collection Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System (2017). His chapter “Hegel” features in the Blackwell Guide to Nineteenth Century Philosophy and he has two collections on Hegel forthcoming with Routledge and one on Hegel’s Encyclopedia. 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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-0-8153-8373-4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-351-20555-9 (ebk) Typeset in Baskerville by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 JAMES GLEDHILL AND SEBASTIAN STEIN SECTION 1 Hegelian Ethics Between Constructivism and Realism 25 1 Hegel’s “Actualist” Idealism and the Modality of Practical Reason 27 PAUL REDDING 2 Choosing to Do the Right Thing: Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel on Practical Normativity and the Realism- Constructivism Debate 50 SEBASTIAN STEIN 3 Constraint and the Ethical Agent: Hegel Between Constructivism and Realism 88 JOSHUA I. WRETZEL 4 Hegel’s Metaethical Non-Constructivism 107 SEBASTIAN OSTRITSCH 5 Rawls’s Post-Kantian Constructivism 128 JAMES GLEDHILL viii Contents SECTION 2 Hegelian Political Normativity Between Reason and History 153 6 Hegel’s Political Philosophy as Constructivism of the Real 155 ANGELICA NUZZO 7 Kant, Hegel, and Our Fate as a Zoôn Politikon 181 KENNETH R. WESTPHAL 8 Finding by Making: The Mediating Role of Social Constructions, Commitments, and Resonance in Hegelian Normative Realism 208 ARTO LAITINEN 9 Historical Constructivism 233 CHRISTOPHER YEOMANS 10 Critical Agency in Hegelian Ethics: Social Metaphysics Versus Moral Constructivism 256 MICHAEL J. THOMPSON 11 Hegel on a Form of Collective Irrationality 288 ROBERT B. PIPPIN SECTION 3 Hegelian Perspectives on Contemporary Politics 303 12 Saving Multiculturalism with Stakeholding: Hegel and the Challenges of Pluralism 305 THOM BROOKS 13 Hegelian Sittlichkeit, Deweyan Democracy, and Honnethian Relational Institutions: Beyond Kantian Practical Philosophy 318 PAUL GILADI 14 Hegel and the Intercultural Conception of Universal Human Rights 348 ANDREW BUCHWALTER Index 376 Contributors Thom Brooks is Professor of Law and Government at Durham Univer- sity, Head of School in the Durham Law School and Deputy Chair of the Durham Law School Education Committee. He is founding edi- tor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy. His publications include Hegel’s Political Philosophy: A Systematic Reading of the Philosophy of Right, 2nd edition (2013), Punishment (Routledge, 2012), Rawls’s Political Lib- eralism (ed. with Martha Nussbaum, 2012), Deterrence (2014), Ethical Citizenship: British Idealism and the Politics of Recognition (2014), Law and Legal Theory (2014), and innumerable other books, chapters, and articles. Andrew Buchwalter is Presidential Professor of Philosophy at the Univer- sity of North Florida. He has served as Fulbright Research Professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His research interests include German Idealism, Legal-Political Philosophy, Critical Social Theory, Global and Environmental Justice, Human Rights, and Public Cultural Pol- icy. His books include Dialectics, Politics, and the Contemporary Value of Hegel’s Practical Philosophy (Routledge, 2011) as well as the edited vol- umes Hegel and Global Justice (2012), Hegel and Capitalism (2015), and Culture and Democracy: Social and Ethical Issues in Public Support for the Arts and Humanities (1992). Paul Giladi received his PhD in Philosophy in 2013 from the University of Sheffield. In August 2019, he was made Senior Lecturer in Philoso- phy at Manchester Metropolitan University and appointed Director of Undergraduate Studies for the BA Philosophy Programmes. He has published numerous articles in journals and edited collections on Hegel, pragmatism, critical social theory, feminism, and contem- porary Anglo-American philosophy. In 2019, Paul published the col- lection: Responses to Naturalism: Critical Perspectives from Idealism and Pragmatism (Routledge). He has two forthcoming Routledge edited volumes: Hegel and the Frankfurt School (ed.) (2020); and Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition (coed.) (2021).
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