Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Translators’ Note xiii
4. Hegel Source Abbreviations xv
5. Preface to the Italian Edition xvii
6. ONE. A Liberal, Secret Hegel?
7. I. Searching for the ‘‘Authentic’’ Hegel 3
8. II. The Philosophies of Right: A Turning Point or Continuity 32
9. TWO. Hegel, Marx, and the Liberal Tradition
10. III. Contractualism and the Modern State 53
11. IV. Conservative or Liberal? A False Dilemma 71
12. V. Hegel and the Liberal Tradition: Two Opposing Interpretations of History 96
13. VI. The Intellectual, Property, and the Social Question 124
14. THREE. Legitimacy and Contradictions of Modernity
15. VII. Right, Violence, and Notrecht 153
16. VIII. ‘‘Agora’’ and ‘‘Schole’’: Rousseau, Hegel, and the Liberal Tradition 180
17. IX. School, Division of Labor, and Modern Man’s Freedom 204
18. X. Moral Tension and the Primacy of Politics 225
19. XI. Legitimacy of the Modern and Rationality of the Actual 246
20. FOUR. The Western World, Liberalism, and the Interpretation of Hegel’s Thought
21. XII. The Second Thirty Years War and the ‘‘Philosophical Crusade’’ against Germany 267
22. XIII. Liberalism, Conservatism, the French Revolution, and Classic German Philosophy 290
23. Notes 311
24. Bibliography 355
25. Index 369