
Hegel and the Representative Constitution
Elias Buchetmann(Autor*in)
Cambridge University Press
Erschienen am 20. April 2023
Buch
Hardcover
272 Seiten
978-1-009-30596-9 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Hegel and the Representative Constitution provides the first comprehensive historical discussion of the institutional dimension of G. W. F. Hegel's political thought. Elias Buchetmann traces this much-neglected aspect in unprecedented contextual detail and makes the case for reading the Philosophy of Right from 1820 as a contribution to the lively and widespread public debate on the constitutional question in contemporary Central Europe. Drawing on a broad range of primary source material, this volume illuminates the wider political discourse in post-Napoleonic Germany, carefully locates Hegel's institutional commitments within their immediate cultural and political context, and reveals him as something closer to a public intellectual. By exploring this indispensable thinker's demand for the constitutional protection of popular participation in government, it contributes beyond Hegel scholarship to shed new light on the history of democratic theory in early nineteenth-century Europe and encourages critical reflection on questions of representation today.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'The overview of German, but also European, intellectual and political life of the time will serve both those interested in the contextualization of Hegel's thought and those who study the history of law or the state of political science at that time.' Florian Rada, Archives de philosophieWeitere Details
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Cambridge
Großbritannien
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Illustrationen
Worked examples or Exercises
Maße
Höhe: 231 mm
Breite: 163 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
Gewicht
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-30596-9 (9781009305969)
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Person
Elias Buchetmann is Research Associate and Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Rostock.
Inhalt
Introduction: humanising Hegel; 1. The constitutional question in post-Napoleonic Germany; 2. On the nature of constitutions; 3. The distribution of power; 4. Debating the two-chamber system; 5. The representation of interests; Conclusion.