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Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present
Hegel's Philosophy of Right has long been recognized as the only
systematic alternative to the dominant social contract tradition in
modern political philosophy. Dean Moyar here takes on the difficult
task of reading and representing Hegel's view of justice with the
same kind of intuitive appeal that has made social contract theory,
with its voluntary consent and assignment of rights and privileges,
such an attractive model. Moyar argues that Hegelian justice
depends on a proper understanding of Hegel's theory of value and on
the model of life through which the overall conception of value,
the Good, is operationalized. Closely examining key episodes in
Phenomenology of Spirit and the entire Philosophy of Right, Moyar
shows how Hegel develops his account of justice through an
inferentialist method whereby the content of right unfolds into
increasingly thick normative structures. He asserts that the theory
of value that Hegel develops in tandem with the account of right
relies on a productive unity of self-consciousness and life, of
pure thinking and the natural drives. Moyar argues that Hegel's
expressive account of the free will enables him to theorize rights
not simply as abstract claims, but rather as realizations of value
in social contexts of mutual recognition. Moyar shows that Hegel's
account of justice is a living system of institutions centered on a
close relation of the economic and political spheres and on an
understanding of the law as developing through practices of public
reason. Moyar defends Hegel's metaphysics of the State as an
account of the sovereignty of the Good, and he shows why Hegel
thought that philosophy needs to offer an account of world history
and reformed religion to buttress the modern social order.
An iconic figure in the movement for Greek independence, Adamantios
Korais (1748-1833) also played a major role in the development and
transmission of Enlightenment ideals. From his early education in
Amsterdam and medical studies in Montpellier, he moved to Paris
where he developed distinctive ideas of political liberalism and
cultural change against the backdrop of the French Revolution. In
Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment a team of
specialists explore the multiple facets of Korais' life and
thought. Following a detailed examination of his formative years
and pan-European education, contributors analyse his: translations
and editions of the classics, through which his own early political
ideas took shape views on linguistic reform and its importance for
a sense of national identity liberal critique of the French
Revolution and his evolving conception of political liberty In
Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment contributors
present a timely reevaluation of a major figure in the foundation
of modern Greece, and provide a fresh perspective on the
interaction of cultures in the European Enlightenment.
Deleuze's fondness for geography has long been recognised as
central to his thought. This is the first book to introduce
researchers to the breadth of his engagements with space, place and
movement. Focusing on pressing global issues such as urbanization,
war, migration, and climate change, Arun Saldanha presents a
detailed Deleuzian rejoinder to a number of theoretical and
political questions about globalization in a variety of
disciplines. This systematic overview of moments in Deleuze's
corpus where space is implicitly or explicitly theorized shows why
he can be called the twentieth century's most interesting thinker
of space. Anyone with an interest in refining such concepts as
territory, assemblage, body, event and Anthropocene will learn much
from the "geophilosophy" which Deleuze and Guattari proposed for
our critical times.
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