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HEGEL’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY HEGEL’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Themes and Interpretations Evangelia Sembou (ed.) Peter Lang Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • New York • Wien Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbiblio grafie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Sembou, Evangelia, editor. Title: Hegel’s political philosophy : themes and interpretations / Evangelia Sembou (ed.). Description: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. 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Contents Evangelia Sembou Introduction 1 Ayumi Takeshima 1 Hegel’s Early Political Philosophy: The Natural Law Essay and the System of Ethical Life 7 Evangelia Sembou 2 The Structure and Argument of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right 23 Günter Zöller 3 Forms of Freedom: Hegel on Civil and Political Liberty 49 Eduardo Assalone 4 Hegel’s Political Organicism: A Proposal for Renewal 79 Andrea Serra 5 Hegel and the Philosophy of Right: The Role of “Mediation” and the Overcoming of the Homo uti Singulus Conception 107 Angelo Narváez León and Pablo Pulgar Moya 6 From Nation to Religion: Hegel’s Critique of the Political Economy of Colonialism 127 Sebastian Stein 7 Just Aspirations and Philosophical Method: Egalitarian Critiques of Hegel’s Concept of Civil Society 153 newgenprepdf vi Contents Mark Tunick 8 A Political Philosophy to Guide Practice: Hegel’s Rechtsphilosophie and Criminal Accountability 181 Bibliography 211 Notes on Contributors 229 Index 235 Evangelia Sembou Introduction Fifty- one years have passed since the publication of Walter Kaufmann’s collection with the title Hegel’s Political Philosophy, which dealt with controversies in Hegel’s political theory.1 One year later Zbigniew Pelczynski published his own momentous collection entitled Hegel’s Political Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives.2 This was followed a decade later by Pelczynski’s equally celebrated collection The State & Civil Society: Studies in Hegel’s Political Philosophy, which fo- cused on the distinction between the state and civil society in Hegel’s political thought.3 Robert Williams’s Beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism: Studies in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right was the first collection to appear after almost twenty years.4 As its title suggests, this latter argued that Hegel’s political theory offered an alternative to both individualist liberalism and communitarianism. A decade later Thom Brooks’s Hegel’s Philosophy of Right appeared, a collection of essays that address ethics, politics, and law in Hegel’s mature political work.5 More recently, Thom Brooks and Sebastian Stein published a collec- tion entitled Hegel’s Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance 1 W. A. Kaufmann (ed.), Hegel’s Political Philosophy (New York: Atherton Press, 1970). 2 Z. A. Pelczynski (ed.), Hegel’s Political Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971). 3 Z. A. Pelczynski (ed.), The State & Civil Society: Studies in Hegel’s Political Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). 4 R. R. Williams (ed.), Beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism: Studies in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001). 5 T. Brooks (ed.), Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (Malden, Oxford, and Chichester: Wiley- Blackwell, 2012). 2 introduction of Method and System, which examines how the Hegelian method and system inform Hegel’s political philosophy.6 The present volume is meant to add to this literature. Its distinctive con- tribution is that it includes a paper on Hegel’s early essay on Natural Law,7 published in two instalments in 1802 and 1803, and the System of Ethical Life, also published in 1802–1 803, as well as papers on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1821). Two papers also discuss “The German Constitution,” written between 1798 and 1802. The book offers novel interpretations of various themes in Hegel’s political philosophy, while the essays are written by a group of international scholars. In Chapter 1 Ayumi Takeshima reads Hegel’s early essay on Natural Law and the System of Ethical Life as a starting- point for his political thought in the Jena period. She argues that in the essay on Natural Law Hegel’s political thought takes the form of “reconciliation without rec- ognition”; the concept of recognition, especially mutual recognition be- tween individuals, has not yet been established. There is only religious reconciliation in Greek tragedy or Christianity. Takeshima maintains that the System of Ethical Life is Hegel’s first work to present his theory of rec- ognition systematically. However, she says, this is heavily influenced by Fichte’s natural law theory and is immature compared to the theory of recognition in the late Jena period. She argues that here Hegel’s political thought takes the form of “recognition without reconciliation.” She con- cludes by claiming that Hegel’s theory of mutual recognition must wait until the Phenomenology of Spirit. Eventually, Hegel’s political philosophy combines recognition and reconciliation. In Chapter 2 I am doing two things. First, I argue that in the Philosophy of Right Hegel did not put forth a blueprint for or a model of a state. Instead, he renders explicit the principles immanent in the notion of the 6 T. Brooks and S. Stein (eds), Hegel’s Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). 7 The full title of the essay is “On the Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law, on its Place in Practical Philosophy, and its Relation to the Positive Sciences of Right.” See G. W. F. Hegel, Political Writings, ed. L. Dickey and H. B. Nisbet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, digital printing 2009), pp. 102–1 80.
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