THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF G.W.F. HEGEL

POL 444Y/2008Y A. Brudner Law: #406, Flavelle House 978-4414 THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF G.W.F. HEGEL In this course we study Hegel's political philosophy through a reading of the Philosophy of Right and of a substantial part of the Phenomenology of Spirit. While the course will be primarily devoted to a close reading of these texts, several general themes will emerge. These include Hegel's understanding of the relationship between philosophic knowledge and the state, his understanding of the relationship between the ancient and modern worlds, his differences with Kant on the status of law and political life, and his place with respect to the tradition of liberal political theory. Evaluation There are three evaluation options: 1) Two essays, one per term. Each essay should be a minimum of twenty double-spaced, typed pages and should attempt to explicate some aspect of Hegel's social and political thought. Each essay is worth 50% of the final mark and is due on the day of the last class of the term. 2) Three essays 12-15 pages in length. At least one essay must deal with the work covered in the fall or spring term. Each essay is worth 331/3% of the final mark. 3) One 40-page essay due on the day of the last class of the year, and worth 90% (for graduate students) or 100% (for law students) of the final mark. This option is available to law and graduate students only. Graduate students will also be asked to give a class presentation, worth 10% of their final mark, dealing (if they wish) with their essay-in-progress. The penalty for late essays is 1% per day of lateness. A list of suggested essay topics will be handed out in due course. Required Texts Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. Miller (Oxford, 1977). Hegel's Philosophy of Right, trans. Knox (Oxford, 1967). Required Reading Phenomenology, pp. 46-57, 104-138, 211-409. Philosophy of Right, all.

2 Selected Bibliography A. General Cooper, B. The End of History: An Essay on Modern Hegelianism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984. Cornell, D., Rosenfeld, M., and Carlson, D. Hegel and Legal Theory. Routledge, 1991. Findlay, J.N. The Philosophy of Hegel: An Introduction and Re-examination. New York: Collier, 1962. Harris, H.S. Hegel's Development: Toward the Sunlight. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Harris, H.S. Hegel's Development: Night Thoughts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Hook, S. From Hegel to Marx. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962. Houlgate, S. Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. Hyppolite, J. Studies on Marx and Hegel, trans. O'Neill. New York: Basic Books, 1969). Lauer, Q. Hegel's Idea of Philosophy. New York: Fordham, 1971. Lowith, K. From Hegel to Nietzsche, trans. Green. Garden City: Doubleday, 1967. Lukacs, G. The Young Hegel, trans. Livingstone. London: Merlin, 1975. MacIntyre, A., ed. Hegel: A Collection of Critical Essays. Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. Mure, G.R.G. An Introduction to Hegel. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940. Mure, G.R.G. The Philosophy of Hegel. London: Oxford University Press, 1965. O Brien, G. Hegel on Reason and History. University of Chicago Press, 1975. Patten, Alan, Hegel s Idea of Freedom New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pinkard, Terry. Hegel: A Biography. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pippin, R.B. Hegel's Idealism. Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Plant, R. Hegel. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1973. Redding, P. Hegel s Hermeneutics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. 3 Rockmore, T. On Hegel s Epistemology and Contemporary Philosophy. Humanities Press, 1996. Rosen, S. G.W.F. Hegel: An Introduction to the Science of Wisdom. New Haven: Yale, 1974. Singer, P. Hegel (Oxford, 1983). Smith, S.B. Hegel's Critique of Liberalism. University of Chicago Press, 1989. Soll, I. An Introduction to Hegel's Metaphysics. Chicago: University Press, 1969. Stace, W.T. The Philosophy of Hegel. New York: Dover, 1955. Taylor, C. Hegel. Cambridge University Press, 1975. Westphal, M. Hegel, Freedom and Modernity. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992. Wood, A.W. Hegel's Ethical Thought. Cambridge University Press, 1990. B. Studies of the Phenomenology of Spirit Browning, G., ed. Hegel s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reappraisal. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997. Forster, M. Hegel s Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Gadamer, H.G. Hegel's Dialectic: Five Hermenentical Studies. New Haven: Yale, 1976. Harris, H.S. Phenomenology and System. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995. Harris, H.S. Hegel s Ladder. Hackett, 1997. Heidegger, M. Hegel's Concept of Experience. New York: Harper, 1970. Hyppolite, J. Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Northwestern University Press, 1974.

4 Kainz, H.P. Hegel's Phenomenology, Part I: Analysis and Commentary, Alabama, 1975. Kainz, H.P. Hegel's Phenomenology, Part II. Ohio University Press, 1983. Kojève, A. Introduction a la lecture de Hegel. Paris: Gallimard, 1947. Kojève, A. Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, trans. Nichols. New York: Basic Books, 1969. Lauer, Q. A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. New York: Fordham, 1976. Lowenberg, J. Hegel's Phenomenology: Dialogue on the Life of Mind. Open Court, 1965. Marx, W. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Commentary on the Preface and Introduction. New York: Harper, 1975. Norman, R. Hegel's Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction. Sussex, 1976. Pinkard, T. Hegel s Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Robinson, J. Duty and Hypocrisy is Hegel's Philosophy of Mind. University of Toronto Press, 1977. Rockmore, T. Cognition: An Introduction to Hegel s Phenomenology of Spirit. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Russon, J. The Self and its Body in Hegel s Phenomenology of Spirit. University of Toronto Press, 1997. Shklar, J. Freedom and Independence: A Study of the Political Ideas of Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind. Cambridge, 1976. Solomon, R.C. In the Spirit of Hegel. Oxford University Press, 1983. Stewart, J., ed. The Phenomenology of Spirit Reader. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998. Westphal, M. History and Truth in Hegel s Phenomenology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

5 C. Studies of the Philosophy of Right Avineri, S. Hegel's Theory of the Modern State. Cambridge, 1972. Brudner, A., "Constitutional Monarchy as the Divine Regime: Hegel's Theory of the Just State", (1981) 2 History of Political Thought 119, "Hegel and the Crisis of Private Law", (1989), 10 Cardozo Law Review 949. Brudner, A. The Unity of the Common Law: Studies in Hegelian Jurisprudence. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Conklin, William. Hegel s Laws. Stanford University Press. 2008. Cullen, B. Hegel's Social and Political Thought: An Introduction. St. Martin's, 1979. Foster, M.B. The Political Philosophies of Plato and Hegel. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935. Geiger, Ido. The Founding of Modern Ethical Life: Hegel s critique of Kant s moral and political philosophy. Stanford University Press, 2007. Hardiman, M. Hegel s Social Philosophy: The Project of Reconciliation. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Kainz, H.P. Hegel's Philosophy of Right: A Handbook for Students. (The Hague, 1974). Kelly, G.A. Idealism, Politics, and History. Cambridge, 1969. Kelly, G.A. Hegel's Retreat from Eleusis: Studies in Political Thought. Princeton, 1978. Lakeland, P. The Politics of Salvation: The Hegelian Idea of the State. Albany: SUNY Press, 1984. MacGregor, D. The Communist Ideal in Hegel and Marx. University of Toronto Press, 1984. MacGregor, D. Hegel, Marx and the English State. University of Toronto Press, 1996. Marx, K. Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, ed. O'Malley. Cambridge, 1970. Nicholson, P.P., "Hegel on Crime", (1982), 3 History of Political Thought 103. Pelczynski, Z.A., ed. Hegel's Political Philosophy: problems and perspectives. Cambridge, 1984.

6 Pelczynski, Z.A., ed. The State and Civil Society: Studies in Hegel's Political Philosophy. Cambridge, 1984. Reyburn, H.A. The Ethical Theory of Hegel. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. Riedel, M. Between Tradition and Revolution. (Cambridge, 1984). Ritter, J. Hegel: Essays on the Philosophy of Right and the French Revolution. (Cambridge, Mass., 1982). Schmidt, J., "A Paideia for the Bürger als Bourgeois...", (1981), 2 History of Political Thought 469. Shanks, A. Hegel s Political Theology. Cambridge University Press, 1991. Steinberger, P.J. Logic and Politics: Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Yale University Press, 1988. Stillman, P., "Hegel's Critique of Liberal Theories of Right", (1974), American Political Science Review, 68. Stillman, P. "Property, Freedom, and Individuality in Hegel's and Marx's Political Thought", (1980) 22 Nomos: Property. Taylor, C. Hegel and Modern Society. Cambridge, 1979. Tunick, M. Hegel s Political Philosophy. Princeton University Press, 1992. Walsh, W.H. Hegelian Ethics (London, 1969). Weil, E. Hegel et l'etat. Paris: Librarie Philosophique J. Urin, 1950. Wilkins, B.T. Hegel's Philosophy of History, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974.