Love and Politics: Re-interpreting Hegel

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Absolute (Identity), 25, 29, 31–34, 46, 57, 59, 67, 69, 71, 72, 91, 102, 115, 136n. 13, 137n. 1 Absolute Knowing, 57, 66–73 abstract ego, 12–13, 15, 38, 44, 46, 68, 74–77, 86 abstract rationality. See reflective rationality abstract right, 17, 36, 38, 40, 41, 68, 75–76, 78–79, 86, 89, 95–96 See also private property ancien regime. See feudalism ancient Greeks, 3, 11, 13, 15, 18, 30 Arendt, Hannah, 119–121, 123, 235, 245n. 21 Aristotle, 123 Aufhebung (sublation), 136n. 17 See also dialectical philosophy base consciousness, 42–43, 57 beautiful soul, 50–52, 66, 108 capitalism, 98, 101, 113, 114, 116–118, 124–129, 131 Christ. See Jesus Christianity, 3–4 early community of, 4, 9, 15–27, 25, 55, 68, 85 civil society as mediating love, 27, 85, 86, 90–91, 103–104, 106, 115–116, 126 as a sphere, 84 institutions of, 86–90, 108–109, 120–121, 127 negative aspect of, 97–98 class consciousness/identity, 87–90, 130 failure/limits of, 96, 98, 120–121 working class, historically, 117 communitarian (philosophy), 113 concept, Hegel’s Philosophy of the. See Notion conscience and forgiveness, 37–39, 44–53, 69, 138n. 9, 138n. 10 as basis of social movements, 108, 117 as basis of modern political community , 48, 55–56, 68–69 as embodied subjectivity, 45, 46, 131 as discussed by Hegel scholars, 48, 55, 139n. 14, n. 16, 140, n. 17, n. 18, n. 19, n. 21, 141n. 2, 142n. 11, 145n. 1 as Hegel’s theory of moral agency, 44–45, 48, 49–56, 80, 95, 99, 109 as rooted in love, 6–8, 44, 46, 48, 65–66, 68, 80 cultivation of, through civil society, 127, 128 eclipsed by reflective rationality, 104–116, 121, 126, 130 in Philosophy of Right, 78–82, 138n. 9, n. 10, 139n. 13 limitation of, 47, 55 159 I N D E X relationship to Kant, 45, 63–64 relationship to philosophical knowing , 46, 65–68 right of, 78–82 corporation, 88–90, 97–98, 108, 120, 127–128 crime, 74–75 Critique of Practical Reason (Kant), 44, 62–64 See also Kant crusades, 122 cult (cultus, cultic practices), 91, 92, 100, 102–103, 128, 143n. 14 culture (Bildung), 38–43, 57–59 dialectical philosophy, 6, 11, 110, 130–132, 136n. 17 Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew, 43, 60 Differenzschrift. See Hegel, works discipline, 4, 41–42, 48, 63, 85 disciplinary reasoning, 97 Dostoevsky, 140n. 17 Enlightenment connection to the Holocaust, 119 dark potential of, 125 as figure in Phenomenology, 39, 43–44, 55, 57–65, 74 reasoning, 11, 14, 110 See also reflective rationality erotic impulse, 97 love, 20, 135n. 20 ethical life, 6, 7 absence of in Rome, 38 as edifying practice, 91–92 as influential concept, 130 concept of, 81–82 Greek, 85 institutions of, 83–86 partial failure of, 95–107, 108–110, 115–124 Hegel’s optimism despite limits of, 125–130 ethical substance, 12–13, 18 evil in relation to conscience, 51–52, 64, 81 radical evil, 118–119 experience in relation to philosophy, 5, 71–73. See also love as implicated in Holocaust, 118, 119 failure of, 95–98, 143n. 1 Fackenheim, 5, 55, 70, 101, 103, 118–120, 123, 124n. 7, 135n. 13, 140n. 16, 143n. 4, 145n. 21 faith, 5, 19, 40–41, 57–60 family, 10, 76, 109–110, 116, 126, 127, 130, 133n. 2, 138n. 7 concept of, 83–86, 88, 90–92, 97 feminism, 93, 126–127, 131 critique of Hegel, 10 feudalism, 27, 36–39, 48, 63, 74, 76, 122 Fichte, 3, 29–32, 46, 136n. 16, 137n. 1, 141n. 22 forgiveness, 7, 37, 39, 45, 47, 49, 55, 57, 65–66, 69, 76, 80–82, 91, 139n. 16, 140, n. 17 Foucault, 113, 125 Frankfurt school, 72, 125, 132 freedom as expressed in private property, 73–74, 77 as substance of will, 143n. 5 Hegel’s early concept of, 3–5, 13–15 in current liberal thought, 111–112 in early liberal thought, 1, 2, 105 in relation to the family, 84–85 substance of, 4, 130, 141–142n. 5 See also reflective rationality; will French Revolution, 44–46, 48, 55, 59, 60–63 Freud, 125 See also unconscious general will, 61, 126 German Idealism, 3, 4 grace, 7, 47, 54, 56, 66, 103 160 Index conscience (continued) Habermas, 44, 48, 72, 145n. 2 Hegel Hegelian middle...