On Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: The 1934-35 Seminar and Interpretive Essays

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by  Martin Heidegger, Peter Trawny, Marcia Cavalcante Schuback, Michael Marder

On Hegel's Philosophy of Right
The 1934-35 Seminar and
Interpretive Essays
Martin Heidegger
Translated by Andrew J. Mitchell
Edited by Peter Trawny,
Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback, and
Michael Marder
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Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
On Hegel's philosophy of right: the 1934-35 seminar and interpretive essays!
Martin Heidegger; translated by Andrew J. Mitchell; edited by PeterTrawny,
Marcia Sa Cavalcante-Schuback, and Michael Marder.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4411-8501-3 (paperback) -ISBN 978-14411-4906-0 (hardback). 1. Hegel,
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts. English.
2. Law-Philosophy. 3. Natural law. 4. State, The. 5. Ethics. 6. Political science.
7. Schmitt, Car!. 1888-1985. I. Mitchell, Andrew J., 197D-translator. II. Trawny, Peter,
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Contents
Part One Understanding Heidegger's 1934-35 Seminar on Hegel's
Philosophy of Right 1
1 Heidegger, Hegel, and the Political Peter Trawny 3
2 Hegel in 1933 Susanna Lindberg 19
3 .T he Question of Political Existence: Hegel, Heidegger, Schmitt
A1ichaelAaarder 37
4 Politics and Ontological Difference in Heidegger
Alexandre Franco de Sa 49
5 Self-Assertion as Founding Richard Polt 67
6 Philosophy without Right? Some Notes on Heidegger's Notes
for the 1934/35 "Hegel Seminar"
•
Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback and Michael Marder 83
Part Two Martin Heidegger: Hegel's Philosophy ofR ight,
Winter Semester, 1934-35 95
Translator's Preface Andrew Aaitchell 97
I Hege1-State 101
1 Civil Society. § 182, Addition
2 "Civil Society"
3 The Ethical
4 Freedom and Its Actuality
{S Freedom - Masterliness}
6 State as Will
{7 Universal will}
8 "Organism'
9 Disposition (political)
10 "Appearance" (Hegel)
11 Idea (Hegel),
12 World History
13 Freedom (Hegel)
vi Contents
14 Ethics (Hegel)
15 "Ideality" - Idea - Ideal
16 Negation of Negation as Absolute Affirmation
17 State as Organism
18 "Organic"
19 State and Science
20 Clarificatory Review
21 First Loosening Up of the Question
22 The Question Concerning the State
23 Question concerning the State a (cf. b)
24 Question concerning the State b
25 For the Protocol
26 State
27 Education and Work in Hegel and in the 19th Century
28 State and Upbringing (Discipline), ("Education")
{II Separation of Powers and Constitution: Constitution of the
National-Socialist State} 109
29 Separation of Powers [Gewaltenteilung] by Hegel
30 The Three Powers
31 Separation of Powers and Origin of Force [Gewalt]
32 Legislative Power
33 The Question Concerning the Powers and Separation
of Powers
34 Separation of Powers [Gewaltenteilung]
35 "Force" [Gewalt] - in the Misinterpretation of "Violence"
[G ewaZttiitigkeit]
36 The Unification of Powers in the Dasein of the Leader
[Fuhrers]
37 People and Mastery
38 The Modern Tripartite Separation of Powers
39 '~uthority" and Mastery and Power
40 Separation of Powers and "Totality"
41 Constitution of the National~Socialist State
{III Civil Society and State} 114
42 §257 fr.
43 General Remarks for the Interpretation of §§260-271
Contents vii
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44 F~Civil Society in the State
45 HegeYs Concept of "Civil Society"
46 Civil Society and State
47 Unity - Identity
48 Appearance and Being
49 Configuration of the State and Concept of the State
50 Thinking of the State and "The Political"
51 State - stato
52 - status
53 "State" - status - Stance -
54 State for Hegel
55 The International State
56 "State"
57 Hegel and the National-Socialist State
{S8 The Historical World}
IV Abstract Right and Morality 121
59 Conscience
60 State and Conscience
61 Disposition
62 The Right of the "Subject"
63 Duty
64 Morality. Kant
65 Right = Duty (empty)
66 Morality and Ethical Life
67 Person
68 Abstract Right (Civil Law [PrivatrechtJ)
69 Morality - Subjectivity
{V Hegel's Systematization State - Spirit - People} 125
70 Our Plan
71 Hegel-On the State. The Systematic Location
72 System - In Terms of Content
73 Metaphysical Sense of Right. Hegel
74 Spirit and State
75 State - In the "Philosophy of Right"
{76 State and Freedom}
77 Further Approach
viii Contents
78 Hegel - Concept of the· State -
79 State
80 State -
81 State
82 On the State. Hegel
83 Where and Who and What and How Is "the" State?
84 How Dialectical Philosophizing About the State, for Example,
Cannot and Must Not Proceed
85 Dialectical Thinking - Conceives and Is Being Itself
86 Dialectic as (Absolute) System. System: To What Extent
"CompletioIi'in the Authentic Sense?
87 Hegel's Systematization and its Development
{SS Hegel'S Systematization}
89 Hegel's - Systematization
90 The Authentically Actual -
91 Essential Knowing
92 Scope of the Dialectic
93 "The Infinitude"
94 The In and For Itself
95 Beyng and Concept - Idea
96 Not - Negation - Sublation
97 lOEa. and Image
98 'The "Not"
99 Of No Use
100 First Hour
101 Do We Need This?
{102 State and People}
103 What Can I Use From That?
104 ErroneousDoctrine
105 The Appearance - The Idea
106 Who the Authentic "Nihilists" Are!
107 Dialectical Method
108 What Is and Where Is the State?
109 The Location of the State in the System of the Encyclopedia
no
Philosophy
111 The Apprentice in the Paper Shop. Knowledge
112 Hegel and Us 7
Contents ix
VI . Exercises on Hegel - State 142
113 Exercises on Hegel-State
114 State
115 Hegel on the State
116 Where Is the State?
117 Spirit for Hegel
118 Feeling and Right
119 The Starting Point of the State
120 Hegel
121 Preparatory Exercise. Hegel. "Method"
122 Hegel. State
123 The Hegelian "Is"
124 Hegel. On the "Is"
125 Hegel. Exercise About the State
126 {Erik} Wolf
127 Deciding the Method
{12S State - Movement}
129 Sovereignty
130 The People's Disposition to the State
131 State
132 Hegel. On the State
133 Law and Custom - Ethical Life
134 Freedom
135 Spirit and Independence - "1" - People
136 Freedom '1$" Only in That It "Becomes"
137 The Spiritual Actuality as Authentic
138 Reason
139 State and Force [Gewalt]
VII Freedom and Will in General 150
140 Freedom
141 "Freedom of the Will"
142 Will
143 Will and Being a Self
144 Will
145 Will Is Work
146 Will
x Contents
VIII Right and State 155
147 Why Is There Right?
148 Where Does Law Come From?
149 Law-: Right - §210 ff.
150 State and "Right"
151 Jurisprudence [Rechtswissenschaft] and People's Law [Volksrecht]
152 Natural Law [Natur-recht]
153 Right. Right of Resistance against Commands Contrary to Law
[Rechtswidrige]
154 §4 - Right and State
155 Right
156 Right - To Create
157 Right c£ §30
158 State as the Being of a People
159 State
{IX Hegel'S Philosophy of Right} 160
160 Hegel. State and Spirit
161 Ethics and Work
162 State. Contract
163 Hegel. State and Sodal Contract
164 Art in the "Phenomenology» as «Religion." Hegel
165 Monarchy. Hegel
166 Ethics - Morality - Legality. Hegel
167 "Spirit:' Hegel
168 Truth. Hegel
169 Concept. Hegel
170 Thinking and Basic Principles and Selfhood. Hegel
171 «Peeling:' Hegel
172 "'World:' "Worldly Wisdom:> Hegel
173 Finitude. Hegel
I
174 Text Alienating
175 Text
176 Interpretation §257 £f.
177 §257
178 Spirit - Freedom (Idealism of Freedom). Interpretation 1a
179 The Human. Interpretation Ib
Contents xi
- 180 Hegel. '!he Substantial
181 The Substantiality of Ethical Life
182 Hegel and Freedom
183 "Liberalism"
184 Dialectic
185 Dialectic
186 To Distinguish [Scheiden]
187 The Tool
188 The "Now" and the "Here" of the This
189 I Are You
190 The Jack-Ass
191 The Same [Selbige] "Is" the Different - ('Is" Equivalent [gleich]
192 Sublating
{l93 The Rational and the Actual}
194 Speculative Propositions
195 The Rational
196 Hegel's Philosophy as Completion -
{197 Introduction and Example}
198 Exercise
199 Hegel, On the State
200 Freedom
201 Absolute Thinking. Hegel
202 Dialectic as "Principle"
203 How Should the Subsequent Exercises Proceed?
X Fundamentals for a Doctrine of the State 174
A Care - State - Beyng
204 "Idea:' Hegel
205 Hegel. State
206 Care - Dasein - State - Being: State and People and Care
207 The Metaphysical Basic Power of the Future State:
Cf. 0 The Political
208 Care and Death and Sacrifice and Knowledge
209 The Political
210 Care
211 State and Principle of Leadership [Fuhrerprinzip] and Work
xii Contents
212 Care as Steadfastness. (Ex. Disposition, Action, Bearing)
213 Hegel, Religion, and State
214 Precedence of the State Over Religion
215 HegeL Religion and State, Church and State
216 Hegel-The Universal and the Passions
217 §260 if.
218 On the Interpretation of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. §257 if.
219 Spirit
220 Philosophy of Right §258-271
B AuthOrity - Mastery - Power - Powers [Gewalten ]
Their Metaphysics and Truth
221 Power and Ethics
222 Power and Leader
223 The Leader
224 Prince (Ruler) and Leader
225 Leading and Mastery
226 Leadership and Powers [Gewalten]
227 Powers. What Does "State-Supporting Power" [Staatstragende
GewaltJ Mean?
C The Political
Disposition - Constitution - (State)
228 The Political
229 Care and State
230 Polis and "The Political"
231 IloAu:;
232 "The Political"
233 Determining the State in Terms of the Political
234 "The Political"
235 The Political
236 The Political
237 Hegel. The Political
238 "The Political" for Hegel
239 The Political?
240 "Political"
241 Organism -