Title Hegel and the metaphysical frontiers of political theory / Eric Lee Goodfield

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (267 pages) Series Routledge Innovations in Political Theory Routledge innovations in political theory. Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Background, history and critique; 1 From Feuerbach to Moore: Hegelian metaphysics and the origins of positivist revolt; The word become flesh: Feuerbach, Marx and the German origins of the revolt against Hegelianism; The denial of experience: William James and Hegel's "vicious intellectualism"; G.E. Moore's "refutation of idealism": the Anglo-American origins of the break with metaphysics 2 Origins of the prescriptive problematic: the behavioral revolution and the schism of political science and philosophical traditionCharles Merriam; George Catlin; David Easton; The legacy and persistence of positivism: scientific and theoretical; Behavioralism, rational choice and the "post-positivist" era; 3 Negating negation: twentieth-century revisionism, the rehabilitation of Hegel's political thought and the descriptive challenge; Guilt by idealistic association: world war and Hegel's place in the Anglo-American theoretical imagination "For Hegel's numerous critics the implications ... are monumental.": the defense and deformation of Hegel's legacyConclusion; PART II Metaphysics and politics in Hegel's thought; 4 Hegel's metaphysics of thought: toward a logic of universals; Introduction; The problem of universals between antiquity and modernity; Why/how metaphysics?; Hegel's metaphysical corpus and the context of the Encyclopedia Logic; Introduction to the Logic; Being; Essence; Concept; Syllogism and the problem of universals; 5 Political dialectic: the metaphysical vocation of political philosophy The metaphysical vocation of political philosophyPolitical logic and the speculative presuppositions of the Philosophy of Right; The philosophical context of Hegel's modern political project; Foundations of the modern state; Coordinating categories; The sovereignty of the metaphysical in Hegel's political thought; Dialectic paralyzed: the distortions of the non-metaphysical reading; PART III Political theory, thought and metaphysics; 6 Political theory and the metaphysical presuppositions of thought; Metaphysical foundations and the theorizing subject of political thought Political theory and the metaphysical frontiers of the liberal-positivist paradigmPolitical and metaphysical: analytic and continental; Select bibliography; Index Summary For over one hundred and fifty years G.W.F. Hegel's ghost has haunted theoretical understanding and practice. His opponents first, and later his defenders, have equally defined their programs against and with his. In this way Hegel's political thought has both situated and displaced modern political theorizing. This book takes the reception of Hegel's political thought as a lens through which contemporary methodological and ideological prerogatives are exposed. It traces the nineteenth century origins of the positivist revolt against Hegel's legacy forward to political science's tu Notes Print version record Subject Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 -- Political and social views SUBJECT Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 fast Subject Natural law. Political science -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century Political science -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century State, The. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference. Natural law Political and social views Political science -- Philosophy State, The Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317665236 1317665236

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