- Title Pages
- Preface
- Prologue
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Part I The Law: The Positivity of Abstraction - Preliminary
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1 Law -
2 Between Nature and History -
3 Contract -
Part II The Vitality and Flaws of the Social - Preliminary
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4 “Citoyen” versus “Bourgeois”? -
5 The State of Law -
6 “Ethicality Lost in Its Extremes” -
Part III The State and the Political - Preliminary
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7 Tocqueville-Hegel -
8 A Theory of Representation -
9 Beyond Democracy -
Part IV Figures of Subjectivity in Objective Spirit: Normativity and Institutions - Preliminary
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10 The Truth of Morality -
11 The Conditions of Political Subjectivity -
12 Subjects, Norms, and Institutions - Epilogue
- Translator’s Note
- Bibliography
- Index
Between Nature and History
Between Nature and History
The Law
- Chapter:
- (p.55) 2 Between Nature and History
- Source:
- The Actual and the Rational
- Author(s):
Jean-François Kervégan
, Daniela Ginsburg, Martin Shuster- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
The chapter shows that Hegel's concept of the "abstract law" escape the usual opposition between "natural law" and "historicism", such as the one developed for example in Leo Strauss's book Natural Right and History
Keywords: natural law, history, historicism, normativity, private law
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Prologue
-
Part I The Law: The Positivity of Abstraction - Preliminary
-
1 Law -
2 Between Nature and History -
3 Contract -
Part II The Vitality and Flaws of the Social - Preliminary
-
4 “Citoyen” versus “Bourgeois”? -
5 The State of Law -
6 “Ethicality Lost in Its Extremes” -
Part III The State and the Political - Preliminary
-
7 Tocqueville-Hegel -
8 A Theory of Representation -
9 Beyond Democracy -
Part IV Figures of Subjectivity in Objective Spirit: Normativity and Institutions - Preliminary
-
10 The Truth of Morality -
11 The Conditions of Political Subjectivity -
12 Subjects, Norms, and Institutions - Epilogue
- Translator’s Note
- Bibliography
- Index