
Political Investigations
Hegel, Marx and Arendt
Robert Fine(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 28. June 2001
Book
Hardback
188 pages
978-0-415-23907-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this highly innovative book Robert Fine compares three great studies of modern political life: Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Marx's Capital and Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, and argues that they are all profoundly radical texts, which jointly contribute to our understanding of the modern world. Fine maintains that these works are far more revealing when read together than in opposition, and draws a direct parallel between Hegel's critique of social forms of right and Marx's critique of social forms of value. Fine shows how fruitfully their work can and should be combined.
Hannah Arendt was in turn critical of what she saw as the historicism of both Hegel and Marx, but Fine argues that her study of the origins of totalitarianism directly picks up on their insights into the modern potential for fanaticism and destructiveness. Arendt never disavowed any of the nineteenth century thinkers who prefigured the catastrophes to come, but Fine shows her indebtedness to Hegel and Marx.
This fascinating book offers a re-reading of these texts as three pivotal moments in the construction of a critical humanist tradition.
Hannah Arendt was in turn critical of what she saw as the historicism of both Hegel and Marx, but Fine argues that her study of the origins of totalitarianism directly picks up on their insights into the modern potential for fanaticism and destructiveness. Arendt never disavowed any of the nineteenth century thinkers who prefigured the catastrophes to come, but Fine shows her indebtedness to Hegel and Marx.
This fascinating book offers a re-reading of these texts as three pivotal moments in the construction of a critical humanist tradition.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-23907-3 (9780415239073)
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Person
Robert Fine is Convenor of the MA in Social and Political Thought and Director of the Centre for Social Theory at the University of Warwick. He is author of Democracy and the Rule of Law: Liberal Ideals and Marxist Critiques (Pluto) and Beyond Apartheid: Labour and Liberation in South Africa (Pluto). He is co-editor of Social Theory after the Holocaust (Liverpool University Press).
Content
Introduction; Chapter 1 Reading and Misreading Hegel's Philosophy of Right; Chapter 2 The Idea of Hegel's Philosophy of Right; Chapter 3 Hegel and Kant; Chapter 4 State and Revolution; Chapter 5 Right and Value; Chapter 6 Totalitarianism and the Rational State; Chapter 7 State and Revolution Revisited; Chapter 8 Kant's Cosmopolitan Ideal and Hegel's Critique; Chapter 9 Arendt's Critical Cosmopolitanism;