Hegel's Rabble: An Investigation Into Hegel's Philosophy of Right Contributor(s): Ruda, Frank (Author) |
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ISBN: 147251016X ISBN-13: 9781472510167 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2013 Click for more in this series: Continuum Studies in Philosophy (Paperback) |
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BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
Dewey: 320.092 |
Series: Continuum Studies in Philosophy (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (0.75 lbs) 240 pages |
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Publisher Description: In Hegel's Rabble, Frank Ruda identifies and explores a crucial problem in the Hegelian philosophy of right that strikes at the heart of Hegel's conception of the state. This singular problem, which Ruda argues is the problem of Hegelian political thought, appears in Hegel's text only in a seemingly marginal form under the name of the rabble: a particular side-effect of the dialectical deduction of the necessity of the existence of state from the contradictory constitution of civil society. Working out from a thorough analysis of this problem and drawing on contemporary discussions in the work of such thinkers as Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Slavoj Zizek, the book proceeds to re-examine and reconstruct Hegel's entire political project. Ruda goes on to argue that only by re-thinking this problem of 'the rabble' in Hegel's thought - the only problem Hegel is able neither to resolve nor to sublate - can the early Marxian conception of 'the proletariat' be properly understood. The book closes with an Afterword from Slavoj Zizek. |
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