Hegel and Modern Society

Fülszöveg

Modern European Philosophy
EDITORS
Alan Montefiore, Balliol College, Oxford Hidé Ishiguro, University College, London
The purpose of this series is to introduce recent and contemporary European philosophy and philosophers to an English-speaking audience. This intro-duction is now seriously overdue. For most of this century there has been a barrier of mutual ignorance and suspicion between those trained in the analytical tradition in Britain and America and the representatives of the main philosophical schools on the European continent (particularly in Francé and Germany). The situation is now changing, and people on both sides are beginning to peer interestedly over that barrier and recognize, sometimes to their surprise, that there are shared problems and concerns, even if these are often expressed in a very different idiom and intellectual context.
The editors wish to foster this sympathetic curiosity, and provide a fórum in which mutual disagreement will at least be... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Modern European Philosophy
EDITORS
Alan Montefiore, Balliol College, Oxford Hidé Ishiguro, University College, London
The purpose of this series is to introduce recent and contemporary European philosophy and philosophers to an English-speaking audience. This intro-duction is now seriously overdue. For most of this century there has been a barrier of mutual ignorance and suspicion between those trained in the analytical tradition in Britain and America and the representatives of the main philosophical schools on the European continent (particularly in Francé and Germany). The situation is now changing, and people on both sides are beginning to peer interestedly over that barrier and recognize, sometimes to their surprise, that there are shared problems and concerns, even if these are often expressed in a very different idiom and intellectual context.
The editors wish to foster this sympathetic curiosity, and provide a fórum in which mutual disagreement will at least be informed and serious. The authors of books in the series have themselves worked in the analytical tradition and are invited to engage critically with major figures and issues in European philosophy. The aim is to provide works of philosophical argumentation and substance rather than mere résumés of 'positions'.
It is particularly appropriate that the series should be inaugurated with Charles Taylor's new book on Hegel. For Hegel is the effective source of several of the different streams of European thought which will be separately treated lat.er; and he still exerts an enormous if not always a recognized influence, which extends well beyond the confines of academic philosophy.
Charles Taylor's Hegel (C.U.P., 1975) was a major and comprehensive study of Hegel. The present book is derived from that, but has a different purpose and emphasis. Professor Taylor explains first, for the generál reader, the main outlines of Hegel's thought considered as a response to the central intellectual and spiritual concerns of his generation. He shows how somé of these problems and preoccupations persist to the present day, and suggests that Hegel has not only helped shape the conceptual form in which they now emerge but alsó points in the direction of their resolution. He demonstrates this with particular reference to the political philosophy and the conceptions of freedom and th'e' humán agent which are involved in that.
The book is intended for students of philosophy and political theory, and for those with a more generál interest in nineteenth-century studies and the history of ideas.
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