Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy: Beyond Kantian Constructivism

ISBN-13: 9781032177809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 392 str.

James Gledhill; Sebastian Stein

Opis

James Gledhill and Sebastian Stein unite scholars of German idealism and contemporary Anglophone practical philosophy, 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.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Hegelian Ethics Between Constructivism and Realism  1. Hegel’s "Actualist" Idealism and the Modality of Practical Reason  2. Choosing to do the Right Thing: Aristotle, Kant and Hegel on Practical Normativity and the Realism-constructivism Debate 3. Constraint and the Ethical Agent: Hegel Between Constructivism and Realism  4. Hegel’s Meta-Ethical Non-Constructivism  5. Rawls’s Post-Kantian Constructivism  Part 2: Hegelian Political Normativity Between Reason and History  6. Hegel’s Political Philosophy as Constructivism of the Real  7. Kant, Hegel and our Fate as Zoôn Politikon  8. Finding by Making: The Mediating Role of Social Constructions, Commitments, and Resonance in Hegelian Normative Realism  9. Historical Constructivism  10. Critical Agency in Hegelian Ethics: Social Metaphysics versus Moral Constructivism  11. Hegel on a Form of Collective Irrationality  Part 3: Hegelian Perspectives on Contemporary Politics  12. Saving Multiculturalism with Stakeholding: Hegel and the Challenges of Pluralism  13. Hegelian Sittlichkeit, Deweyan Democracy, and Honnethian Relational Institutions: Beyond Kantian Practical Philosophy  14. Hegel and the Intercultural Conception of Universal Human Rights

O autorze

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 amongst 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.