Hegel's Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics

Introduction

Michael J. Thompson

Part I: The Relation of Hegel's Metaphysics and Political Theory

1, The Course of God: Reading Hegel

Peter J. Steinberger

2. The Metaphysics of Spirit and Hegel's Philosophy of Politics

Andrew Buchwalter

3. Speculative Logic as Practical Philosophy: Political Life in Times of Crisis

Angelica Nuzzo

4. Metaphysics and the Poverty of Liberal-Positives Political Thought

Eric Goodfield

Part II: Ontology, Metaphysics and Practical Reason

5. The Metaphysical Infrastructure of Hegel's Practical Philosophy

Michael J. Thompson

6. The Metaphysics of Rational Action: Kantian and Aristotelian Themes in Hegel's Absolute Idealism

Sebastian Stein

7. Against the Post-Kantian Interpretation of Hegel; A Study in Proto-Marxist Metaphysics

Michael Morris

8. Objective Spirit: Hegel's Normative Social Ontology

Kevin Thompson

Part III: Metaphysics, History and the Structures of Ethical Life

9. Family Structures as Fields of Historical Tension: A Case Study in the Relation of Metaphysics and Politics

Christopher Yeomans

10. Hegel's Metaphysics of Marriage: Teleology, Ontology, and Sexually Embodied Freedom in the Philosophy of Right's Account of the Family

Joshua D. Goldstein

11. Tiger Stripes and Embodied Systems: Hegel on Markets and Models

David Kolb

12. Hegel and the End of a Particular Historical Development

Matthew Smetona