Available in English for the first time, "Hegel and the Freedom of
Moderns" revives discussion of the major political and
philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a
revolutionary interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's thought. Domenico
Losurdo, ""one of the world's leading Hegelians, reveals that the
philosopher was fully engaged with the political controversies of
his time. In so doing, he shows how the issues addressed by Hegel
in the nineteenth century resonate with many of the central
political concerns of today, among them questions of community,
nation, liberalism, and freedom. Based on an examination of Hegel's
entire corpus--including manuscripts, lecture notes, different
versions of texts, and letters--Losurdo locates the philosopher's
works within the historical contexts and political situations in
which they were composed.
"Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns" persuasively argues that the
tug of war between "conservative" and "liberal" interpretations of
Hegel has obscured and distorted the most important aspects of his
political thought. Losurdo unravels this misleading dualism and
provides an illuminating discussion of the relation between Hegel's
political philosophy and the thinking of Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels. He also discusses Hegel's ideas in relation to the
pertinent writings of other major figures of modern political
philosophy such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Edmund Burke,
John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Karl Popper, Norberto Bobbio, and
Friedrich Hayek.
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