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One of Hegel's most controversial and confounding claims is that the real is rational and the rational is real. In this book, one of the world's leading scholars of Hegel, Jean-François Kervégan, offers a thorough analysis and explanation of that claim, along the way delivering a compelling account of modern social, political, and ethical life. Kervégan begins with Hegel's term objective spirit, the public manifestation of our deepest commitments, the binding norms that shape our existence as subjects and agents. He examines objective spirit in three realms: the notion of right, the theory of society, and the state. In conversation with Tocqueville and other theorists of democracy, whether in the Anglophone world or in Europe, Kervégan shows how Hegeloften associated with grand metaphysical ideasactually had a specific conception of civil society and the state. In Hegel's view, public institutions represent the fulfillment of deep subjective needsand in that sense, demonstrate that

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/07/2018
      ISBN13: 9780226023809, 978-0226023809
      ISBN10: 022602380X
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      Book Synopsis
      One of Hegel's most controversial and confounding claims is that the real is rational and the rational is real. In this book, one of the world's leading scholars of Hegel, Jean-François Kervégan, offers a thorough analysis and explanation of that claim, along the way delivering a compelling account of modern social, political, and ethical life. Kervégan begins with Hegel's term objective spirit, the public manifestation of our deepest commitments, the binding norms that shape our existence as subjects and agents. He examines objective spirit in three realms: the notion of right, the theory of society, and the state. In conversation with Tocqueville and other theorists of democracy, whether in the Anglophone world or in Europe, Kervégan shows how Hegeloften associated with grand metaphysical ideasactually had a specific conception of civil society and the state. In Hegel's view, public institutions represent the fulfillment of deep subjective needsand in that sense, demonstrate that

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