Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Translator's Introduction; Preface to the English Translation; Preface to the Original Italian Edition: Does Democracy Need Ethics?; Introduction. Morality and Ethical Life: Key Concepts in Hegel's Conception of the Political; Chapter 1. Freedom and the Absolute; 1.1. Freedom and Ontology; 1.2. Freedom and Self-transparency; 1.3. Freedom and Negativity; 1.4. Freedom and Finitude; 1.5. Freedom and Relation; 1.6. Freedom and Objectivity; 1.7. Freedom and Self-consciousness; Chapter 2. The Age of Universal Freedom; 2.1. "Person" and the Universality of Right.
  • 2.2. Freedom as Autonomy of the Subject2.3. Freedom of Civil Society; 2.3.1. Civil Society as State of Nature; 2.3.2. Abstract Freedom Becomes Reality; 2.3.3. Primacy of Freedom Over Nature; 2.3.4. Overcoming Individualism; 2.3.5. Civil Society as "the External State"; 2.3.6. The Realm of Appearance; 2.3.7. From Subjective Freedom to Relational Freedom: Family, Civil Society, Corporation; Chapter 3. Actualization of Ethical Life: The Sphere of the State; 3.1. Characteristics of Hegelian Ethical Life; 3.1.1. Unity of Freedom and Nature; 3.1.2. Unity of Freedom and History.
  • 3.1.3. Reconciliation of Universality and Ethos3.1.4. Ethos as "Second Nature"; 3.1.5. Healing the Diremption of Modernity; 3.1.6. Practical Unity of Subject and Object; 3.2. Ethical Life as Primacy of the Object; 3.2.1. Reconciliation of Individual and Universal; 3.2.2. The Originariness of Order; 3.2.3. A Subjectivity Deficit; 3.3. Contingency of the Ethical; 3.3.1. Failure of Ethical Life; 3.3.2. Nationalistic Closure of the Universality of Sittlichkeit and the Defeat of Freedom; 3.3.3. From Objective Spirit to Absolute Spirit.
  • Chapter 4. Elements of a Postidealist Ethical Life: A Democratization of Hegel's Political Philosophy4.1. Logico-ontological Presuppositions of Hegelian Ethical Life; 4.1.1. From Ethical Life to the Philosophy of History; 4.1.2. From Philosophy of History to Logic; 4.1.3. Two Competing Conceptions of the Idea of Freedom; 4.2. Ethical Life and Logic of Recognition; 4.2.1. Logic of Recognition; 4.2.2. Ethical Life and Otherness; 4.2.3. Normative Background of Recognition and Spheres of Ethical Life; 4.3. Democracy as Ethos; 4.3.1. Fundamental Characteristics of a Democratic Ethical Life.
  • 4.3.2. A Democratization of HegelNotes; Bibliography; Index.