Hegel and the representative constitution
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Hegel and the representative constitution
（Ideas in context / edited by Quentin Skinner (general editor) ... [et al.]）
Cambridge University Press, 2023
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-252) and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction: Humanising Hegel
- The constitutional question in post-Napoleonic Germany
- On the nature of constitutions
- The distribution of power
- Debating the two-chamber system
- The representation of interests
- Conclusion
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Hegel and the Representative Constitution provides the first comprehensive historical discussion of the institutional dimension of G. W. F. Hegel's political thought. Elias Buchetmann traces this much-neglected aspect in unprecedented contextual detail and makes the case for reading the Philosophy of Right from 1820 as a contribution to the lively and widespread public debate on the constitutional question in contemporary Central Europe. Drawing on a broad range of primary source material, this volume illuminates the wider political discourse in post-Napoleonic Germany, carefully locates Hegel's institutional commitments within their immediate cultural and political context, and reveals him as something closer to a public intellectual. By exploring this indispensable thinker's demand for the constitutional protection of popular participation in government, it contributes beyond Hegel scholarship to shed new light on the history of democratic theory in early nineteenth-century Europe and encourages critical reflection on questions of representation today.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: humanising Hegel
- 1. The constitutional question in post-Napoleonic Germany
- 2. On the nature of constitutions
- 3. The distribution of power
- 4. Debating the two-chamber system
- 5. The representation of interests
- Conclusion.
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