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Laws of the spirit : a Hegelian theory of justice / Shannon Hoff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9781438450292
  • 143845029X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Laws of the spiritDDC classification:
  • 193 23
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  • B2949.S75 H64 2014eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Acknowledgments; Note on the Text; Introduction; Part 1: Law, Ethicality, and Forgiveness; 1. Themes from "The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate"; The Challenge to Law; Punishment as Law and Punishment as Fate; Conclusion; 2. The Immediacy of Ethical Life; Hegel's Critique of "Natural" Society; The Ambivalence of Ethicality; 3. The Right of Personhood; The Self as Substance; Hegel's Critique of the Condition of Right; The Lord of the World and the Problem of Political Authority; The Meaninglessness of the World and the Problem of Individual Agency; Ethicality and Right; Conclusion.
4. The Legal Conditions of ActionThe Essential Externalization of the Person in Property; Law and its Mediation of Human Action; The World of Law; The "Becoming-Custom" of Law, and the Experience of Law as Restriction; Conclusion; 5. Law, Right, and Forgiveness; Individual Action and Law in the Phenomenology; Action in the Spiritual Animal Kingdom; Law in Ethical Life and the Condition of Right; "Conscience. The Beautiful Soul, Evil, and its Forgiveness"; Conscience, Forgiveness, and the Systems of Ethical Life and Law; Conclusion; Conclusion to Part 1.
Part 2: The Actuality and Practice of Law6. The Ideal Nation and the Real Nation; "All Reality is Solely Spiritual": Universal Reason in the Form of a Nation; The Space of Reason and the Determinacy of Justice; The Time of Reason and the Cultivation of Democracy; Conclusion; 7. Criminal Action; "Ordinary" Action and Criminal Action; Law and Punishment; The Inadequate Authority of Law; Forgiveness and Criminality; Conclusion; Conclusion to Part 2; Part 3: Hegel and Contemporary Political Life; 8. The Politics of Liberalism.
The Logical and Interpersonal Significance of the Concept of ForgivenessHegel's Critique of Liberalism; Conclusion; 9. Hegel and the Politics of Recognition; The Nature of Recognition; The Fact of Recognition; Or, Recognition Is Always Already Happening; The Demand for Recognition; Or, Recognition Is Always Not Yet Happening; Recognition and Justice; or, How Political Life is Answerable to Recognition; The Politics of Recognition; The Discourse of Recognition; Recognition and Law; Conclusion; Conclusion to Part 3; Conclusion: The Ethics and Politics of Conscience.
The Mediation of Action: Tradition and LawThe Singularity of Action and the Challenge of Responsibility; Law, Tradition, and Interpretation: The Ethics of Conscience; Law, Democracy, and Forgiveness: The Politics of Conscience; The Risk of Forgiveness; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: Drawing from a variety of Hegel's writings, Shannon Hoff articulates a theory of justice that requires answering simultaneously to three irreducibly different demands: those of community, universality, and individuality. The domains of "ethicality," "legality," and "morality" correspond to these essential dimensions of human experience, and a political system that fails to give adequate recognition to any one of these will become oppressive. The commitment to legality emphasized in modern and contemporary political life, Hoff argues, systematically precludes adequate recognition of the formative cultural contexts that Hegel identifies under the name of "ethical life" and of singular experiences of moral duty, or conscience. Countering the perception of Hegel as a conservative political thinker and engaging broadly with contemporary work in liberalism, critical theory, and feminism, Hoff focuses on these themes of ethicality and conscience to consider how modern liberal politics must be transformed if it is to accommodate these essential dimensions of human life.
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Acknowledgments; Note on the Text; Introduction; Part 1: Law, Ethicality, and Forgiveness; 1. Themes from "The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate"; The Challenge to Law; Punishment as Law and Punishment as Fate; Conclusion; 2. The Immediacy of Ethical Life; Hegel's Critique of "Natural" Society; The Ambivalence of Ethicality; 3. The Right of Personhood; The Self as Substance; Hegel's Critique of the Condition of Right; The Lord of the World and the Problem of Political Authority; The Meaninglessness of the World and the Problem of Individual Agency; Ethicality and Right; Conclusion.

4. The Legal Conditions of ActionThe Essential Externalization of the Person in Property; Law and its Mediation of Human Action; The World of Law; The "Becoming-Custom" of Law, and the Experience of Law as Restriction; Conclusion; 5. Law, Right, and Forgiveness; Individual Action and Law in the Phenomenology; Action in the Spiritual Animal Kingdom; Law in Ethical Life and the Condition of Right; "Conscience. The Beautiful Soul, Evil, and its Forgiveness"; Conscience, Forgiveness, and the Systems of Ethical Life and Law; Conclusion; Conclusion to Part 1.

Part 2: The Actuality and Practice of Law6. The Ideal Nation and the Real Nation; "All Reality is Solely Spiritual": Universal Reason in the Form of a Nation; The Space of Reason and the Determinacy of Justice; The Time of Reason and the Cultivation of Democracy; Conclusion; 7. Criminal Action; "Ordinary" Action and Criminal Action; Law and Punishment; The Inadequate Authority of Law; Forgiveness and Criminality; Conclusion; Conclusion to Part 2; Part 3: Hegel and Contemporary Political Life; 8. The Politics of Liberalism.

The Logical and Interpersonal Significance of the Concept of ForgivenessHegel's Critique of Liberalism; Conclusion; 9. Hegel and the Politics of Recognition; The Nature of Recognition; The Fact of Recognition; Or, Recognition Is Always Already Happening; The Demand for Recognition; Or, Recognition Is Always Not Yet Happening; Recognition and Justice; or, How Political Life is Answerable to Recognition; The Politics of Recognition; The Discourse of Recognition; Recognition and Law; Conclusion; Conclusion to Part 3; Conclusion: The Ethics and Politics of Conscience.

The Mediation of Action: Tradition and LawThe Singularity of Action and the Challenge of Responsibility; Law, Tradition, and Interpretation: The Ethics of Conscience; Law, Democracy, and Forgiveness: The Politics of Conscience; The Risk of Forgiveness; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

English.

Drawing from a variety of Hegel's writings, Shannon Hoff articulates a theory of justice that requires answering simultaneously to three irreducibly different demands: those of community, universality, and individuality. The domains of "ethicality," "legality," and "morality" correspond to these essential dimensions of human experience, and a political system that fails to give adequate recognition to any one of these will become oppressive. The commitment to legality emphasized in modern and contemporary political life, Hoff argues, systematically precludes adequate recognition of the formative cultural contexts that Hegel identifies under the name of "ethical life" and of singular experiences of moral duty, or conscience. Countering the perception of Hegel as a conservative political thinker and engaging broadly with contemporary work in liberalism, critical theory, and feminism, Hoff focuses on these themes of ethicality and conscience to consider how modern liberal politics must be transformed if it is to accommodate these essential dimensions of human life.