9 Political Thought and Its Discontents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. The Kantian Revolution
7. Introduction 25
8. 1 The Turning Point 29
9. 2 Kant, Religion and Revolution 50
10. 3 The Christian Revolution and its Fate 79
11. Part II. Hegel and the French Revolution
12. Introduction 101
13. 4 The Holy Roman Empire and the French Revolution 105
14. 5 Absolute Freedom and Terror 131
15. 6 Revolution and the Modern Constitutional State 163
16. Part III. The History of Political Thought
17. Introduction 191
18. 7 Hegel’s Plato 197
19. 8 After the Hegel Renaissance 225
20. 9 Political Thought and Its Discontents 257
21. Conclusion 289
22. Index 301
23. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 323