Table of Contents

Introduction Robert R. Williams 1. Hegel's Critical Appropriation of Kantian Morality Ardis B. Collins 2. Institutional Normativity: The Positivity of Right Kevin Thompson 3. Hegel in Political Identity and the Ties That Bind Mark Tunick 4. Postcolonialism and Right Richard Dien Winfield 5. Freedom in the Body: The Body as Subject of Rights and Object of Property in Hegel's "Abstract Right" Angelica Nuzzo 6. Hegel on the Justification of Punishment Dudley Knowles 7. War, Slavery, and the Ironies of the American Civil War: A Philosophic Analysis Lawrence S. Stepelevich 8. Social Contract Theory and the Politics of Recognition in Hegel's Political Philosophy Alan Patten 9. Hegel's Implicit View on How to Solve the Problem of Poverty: The Responsible Consumer and the Return of the Ethical to Civil Society Joel Anderson 10. Law, Culture, and Constitutionalism: Remarks on Hegel and Habermas Andrew Buchwalter 11. The End(s) of the State in Hegel's Philosophy of Right David C. Durst 12. Hegel, Rawls, and the Rational State Stephen Houlgate Author Biographies Index

About the Author

Robert R. Williams is Professor of Philosophy at Hiram College. He is the author of several books, including Hegel's Ethics of Recognition; Schleiermacher the Theologian: The Construction of the Doctrine of God; and Recognition: Fichte and Hegel on the Other, also published by SUNY Press.

Reviews

"The authors speak to the current debates about communitarianism, but what is novel is that they refuse the usual identification of Hegel with communitarian views, and attempt to reframe the debate in new ways." - David Kolb, author of The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger, and After "This book addresses a variety of important issues relating to Hegel's Philosophy of Right in a way that is professional, accessible, and thought provoking. They are not mere expositions of Hegel. In addition to appropriate explication of Hegel's texts there is much to challenge the reader in terms of rethinking and rereading Hegel and reconsidering him in relation to other thinkers and traditions. " - David A. Duquette, St. Norbert College