Hegel's Idea of Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780198237709 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 232 str.

Alan Patten

Opis

This book offers the first full-length treatment in English of Hegel's idea of freedom - his theory of what it is to be free and his account of the social and political contexts in which this freedom is developed, realized, and sustained. Freedom is the value that Hegel most greatly admired and the central organizing concept of his social philosophy.

Recenzje

offers its readers a clear and penetrating analysis of the complex conception of freedom that underlies Hegel's vision of the rational, or good, social order. In providing a reconstruction of Hegel's view that is unfailingly direct and jargon-free, Patten brings us to see the plausibility and attractiveness of a social philosophy that has often seemed both obscure and pernicious to Anglo-American critics

O autorze

Alan Patten is Assistant Professor of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal. He was previously Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter.