The Actual and the Rational
Hegel and Objective Spirit
- Contents

Prologue: The Actual and the Rational
PART I
The Law: The Positivity of Abstraction
Preliminary: The Objectivity of Willing
1 Law: Its Concept and Actualizations
2 Between Nature and History: The Law
3 Contract: The Legal Conditions of the Social
PART II
The Vitality and Flaws of the Social
Preliminary: The Archeology of Society
4 “Citoyen” versus “Bourgeois”? The Quest for the “Spirit of the Whole”
5 The State of Law: Civil Society
6 “Ethicality Lost in Its Extremes”
PART III
The State and the Political
Preliminary: The Enduring Myth of the Philosopher of the Prussian State
7 Tocqueville-Hegel: A Silent Dialogue on Modernity
8 A Theory of Representation
9 Beyond Democracy
PART IV
Figures of Subjectivity in Objective Spirit: Normativity and Institutions
Preliminary: Strong and Weak Institutionalism
10 The Truth of Morality
11 The Conditions of Political Subjectivity
12 Subjects, Norms, and Institutions: What Is an Ethical Life?
Epilogue: The Passion of the Concept
Translator’s Note
Bibliography
Index
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