Hegel for social movements / / by Andy Blunden.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences; volume137
• VerfasserIn: Blunden, Andy,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences; volume137.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 pages).

Hegel for Social Movements by Andy Blunden is an introduction to the reading of Hegel intended for those already active in social movements. It introduces Hegel’s ideas in a way which will be useful for those fighting for social change, and while some familiarity with philosophy would be an advantag...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Figures
• Introduction
• Why Hegel
• The Young Hegel and What Drove Him
• Hegel’s Idea of Science and Philosophy
• The Phenomenology and ‘Formations of Consciousness’
• Hegel as Philosopher of Social Movements
• The Logic
• The Subject Matter of the Logic
• The Three Divisions of the Logic: Being, Essence and Notion
• The Doctrine of Being, or Ontology
• The Doctrine of Essence: Mediation or the Truth of Being
• The Subjective Notion: Universal, Individual and Particular
• Subject, Object and Idea
• Hegel’s Theory of Action, Part 1: Teleology
• The Subject and Culture: Logic and Ontology
• The Philosophy of Right
• Subjective Spirit
• Social Science as Hegel Saw It
• Hegel’s Theory of Action, Part 2: The Free Will
• The Three Parts of The Philosophy of Right: Right, Morality and Ethical Life
• Abstract Right
• Hegel’s Theory of Action, Part 3: Purpose, Intention and the Good
• Morality
• Ethical Life
• The State
• Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
• Conclusions
• Marx’s Capital and Hegel’s Logic
• Soviet Psychology
• Once Again: Hegel for Social Movements
• Back Matter
• References
• Index.