Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Part 1: Introduction
1Why Hegel
1For Hegel, Ideas were Forms of Activity
2’Thought’ Means Norms of Human Activity
3Hegel’s Influence on Modern Philosophy is Immense
4Hegel is Very Difficult to Read
5Plan of this Book
2The Young Hegel and What Drove Him
1Germany was Fragmented, and Socially and Economically Backward
2Hegel was a Modernist Opponent of Liberalism
3The Main Difference between Hegel and Marx is the Times They Lived In
4The “Spirit of a People'; was Rooted in an Historical Form of Life
5 Zeitgeist Remains a Widely Accepted, if Problematic, Concept of Spirit
6In What Sense was Hegel an Idealist?
7Spirit and Material Culture
3Hegel’s Idea of Science and Philosophy
1The Subject Matter of Philosophy
2The Diversity of Philosophical Views are Parts of a Single Whole
3From Where to Begin?
4The Phenomenology and the Logic
4The Phenomenology and ‘Formations of Consciousness’
1How can We Conceptualise a ‘Formation of Consciousness’?
2How do We Conceive of a Formation of Consciousness as a Whole?
3What can be Called a ‘Formation of Consciousness’?
4The Dynamics of ‘Formations of Consciousness’ is in the Logic
5The Importance of the Master-Servant Narrative is Exaggerated
6How the Phenomenology was ‘Rediscovered’
5Hegel as Philosopher of Social Movements
1It is Hegel’s Logic which Makes Him the Philosopher of Social Movements
2Hegel Knew Emancipatory Social Movements, but No Labour Movement
3A Concept is a Form of Practice
4A Social Movement is Understood as an Entire Process of Social Change
5How to Read Hegel and What to Read
Part 2: The Logic
6The Subject Matter of the Logic
1The Logic is the Logic of Formations of Consciousness
2The Logic is the Foundation for a Presuppositionless Philosophy
3The Logic Studies the Inner Contradictions within Concepts
4The Problem of “Moving Concepts'
5The Logic Concerns Real Situations, Not Mathematical Abstractions
7The Three Divisions of the Logic: Being, Essence and Notion
1The Starting Point of the Logic: Being
2Being is the Concept In-Itself, Not yet Conscious of Itself
3Essence is Reflection
4The Notion is the Concept Conscious of Itself
5Being and Essence Constitute the Genesis of the Notion
6Each Division has a Distinct Form of Movement or Development
8The Doctrine of Being, or Ontology
1”Being is the Absolute" Marks the Beginning of Philosophy
2Being, Nothing and Determinate Being
3Quality, Quantity and Measure
4In the Sphere of Being it’s Just One Damn Thing After Another
5Social Movements Do Not Exist Until They Realise It
9The Doctrine of Essence: Mediation or the Truth of Being
1Identity, Difference, Diversity, Opposition, Contradiction and Ground
2The Thing: The Dialectic of Matter and Form
3Appearance: The Dialectic of Content and Form
4Actuality: The Dialectic of Cause and Effect, Reciprocity
5Development is the Struggle of Opposites Which do not Disappear
10The Subjective Notion: Universal, Individual and Particular
1The Whole is Reconstructed by Rising from the Abstract to Concrete
2The Subject is What is Active
3The Subject is the Truth of Being and Essence
4The Concept is the Identity of the Individual, Universal and Particular
5The Judgments are Logical Representations of Unmediated Actions
6Each Moment Mediates between the Other Two
11Subject, Object and Idea
1The Subject Develops from Abstract to Concrete
2The Three Phases of Objectification: Mechanism, Chemism and Organism
3The Idea is the Unity of Life and Cognition
4Hegel Overcomes the Individual/Society Dichotomy
5Spirit is Both Substance and Subject
Hegel’s Theory of Action, Part 1: Teleology
12The Subject and Culture: Logic and Ontology
1Dichotomy is a Problem in the History of Philosophy
2Hegel has Overcome the Mind-Matter Dichotomy with Logic
3The Logic Offers a Basis for Interdisciplinary Research
4Everything is Both Immediate and Mediated
5Normativity, Attributes and the Idea
6Hegel and Deconstruction
7Is Hegel’s Logic a Monologue?
8Brief Outline of Philosophy of Nature
9Einstein Confirmed Hegel’s Approach to Mechanics
Part 3: The Philosophy of Right
13Subjective Spirit
1Subjective Spirit, Objective Spirit and Absolute Spirit
2Psyche, Consciousness and Intellect
3The Forms of Movement in Subjective Spirit
4A Contradiction within Subjective Spirit Gives Rise to Objective Spirit
14Social Science as Hegel Saw It
1Hegel Unfolds Social Theory from the Concept of ‘Right’
2Right may not be True to its Concept
3Concepts have an Inherent Tendency Towards ‘Perfecting Themselves’
4What is Rational is Real and What is Real is Rational
5Philosophy cannot Teach the State What it should Be
6Here is the Rose in the Cross, Now Jump!
7The Owl of Minerva Takes Flight at Dusk
Hegel’s Theory of Action, Part 2: The Free Will
15The Three Parts of The Philosophy of Right : Right, Morality and Ethical Life
1Right, Morality and Ethics
2Hegel Rejected the Individualism of Kant’s Moral Philosophy
3Hegel Rationalised the Paternalistic Family
4The Family, Civil Society and the State
5Hegel’s Critique of Rousseau on the State
6Logic and History
7The State in Germany and Europe in Hegel’s Times
16Abstract Right
1The Right to Property is Necessary to Being a Person
2Contract and Exchange
3The Form of Movement in Abstract Right
Hegel’s Theory of Action, Part 3: Purpose, Intention and the Good
17Morality
1Conscience and Duty, Good and Evil
2Hegel’s Morality and Present-day Issues in Moral Philosophy
3Civil Disobedience
4Ends Justify the Means?
5The Right of Heroes
18Ethical Life
1Ethical Life is the Idea of Freedom in the Existing World
2The Family is the Unit of Ethical Life
3Civil Society is the Self-governing World of Particular Interests
4The System of Needs and Labour is the Essence of Ethical Life
5Hegel Debunks Successive Solutions to the Capitalist Crisis
6The Classes of Civil Society: the Rich ‘Lead’ the Poor
7The Public Authorities are Part of Civil Society, not the State
8The Corporations
19The State
1The State is the March of God on Earth
2The Crown
3The Executive, the Civil Service and the Public Authorities
4The Legislature, the Estates and the Classes of Civil Society
5The Young Marx vs. Hegel on the State
20Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
1You, Marx and Hegel on the State
2Civil Disobedience is No Crime
3Human Rights, Abstract Right and Ethical Life
4Universal Suffrage and Participatory Democracy
Part 4: Conclusions
21Marx’s Capital and Hegel’s Logic
1Turning Hegel on His Head
2Goethe, Hegel and Marx
3Capital
4Summary
22Soviet Psychology
1Vygotsky, Concepts and Artefact-mediated Actions
2A.N. Leontyev on Activities
23Once Again: Hegel for Social Movements
1Collaborative Projects
2Solidarity
References
Index
