The New Hegelians
Politics and Philosophy in the Hegelian School

This 2006 anthology offers research on Hegel's followers in the 1830s and 1840s.

Douglas Moggach (Author)

9781107403543, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 October 2011

360 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.53 kg

Review of the hardback: 'Richly informative and carefully edited … This book is instructive in a way that the new Hegelians would be in a position to appreciate, not as a lesson of republicanism but as a provocation of thought.' Katerina Deligiorgi, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

The period leading up to the Revolutions of 1848 was a seminal moment in the history of political thought, demarcating the ideological currents and defining the problems of freedom and social cohesion which are among the key issues of modern politics. This 2006 anthology offers research on Hegel's followers in the 1830s and 1840s. With essays by philosophers, political scientists, and historians from Europe and North America, it pays special attention to questions of state power, the economy, poverty, and labour, as well as to ideas on freedom. The book examines the political and social thought of Eduard Gans, Ludwig Feuerbach, Max Stirner, Bruno and Edgar Bauer, the young Engels, and Marx. It places them in the context of Hegel's philosophy, the Enlightenment, Kant, the French Revolution, industrialization, and urban poverty. It also views Marx and Engels in relation to their contemporaries and interlocutors in the Hegelian school.

Introduction: Hegelianism, republicanism, and modernity Douglas Moggach
1. Eduard Gans on poverty and on the constitutional debate Norbert Waszek
2. Ludwig Feuerbach's Critique of Religion and the end of moral philosophy Howard Williams
3. The symbolic dimension and the politics of Left Hegelianism Warren Breckman
4. Exclusiveness and political universalism in Bruno Bauer Massimiliano Tomba (translated from Italian by Douglas Moggach)
5. Republican rigorism and emancipation in Bruno Bauer Douglas Moggach
6. Edgar Bauer and The Origins of the Theory of Terrorism Eric v.d. Luft
7. Ein Menschenleben: Hegel and Stirner Lawrence S. Stepelevich
8. 'The State and I': Max Stirner's anarchism David Leopold
9. Engels and the invention of the catastrophist conception of the industrial revolution Gareth Stedman Jones
10. The basis of the state in the Marx of 1842 Andrew Chitty
11. Marx and Feuerbachian essence: returning to the question of 'Human Essence' in historical materialism José Crisóstomo de Souza
12. Freedom and the 'Realm of Necessity' Sean Sayers
13. Work, language and community: a response to Hegel's critics Ardis B. Collins.

Subject Areas: Political science & theory [JPA], Social & political philosophy [HPS], Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD], History of Western philosophy [HPC]