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Informationen zum Autor Nathan Ross is currently on the faculty at DePaul University, and his work as a scholar is concerned with researching the social and political philosophies of Kant, Hegel and the German Romantics. He has published articles in Hegel-Jahrbuch, Idealistic Studies, and is currently researching the political implications of the theory of aesthetic experience in Kant, Schiller, Friedrich Schlegel and Hölderlin. Klappentext Examines the role of the concept of mechanism in Hegel's thinking about political and social institutions. This book counters as overly simplistic the notion that Hegel has an 'organic concept of society'. It also examines the thought of Hegel's peers and predecessors who critique modern political intuitions as 'machine-like'. Zusammenfassung In this erudite study, Ross considers the role of the concept of mechanism in the social and political philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel and his immediate predecessors in German political thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: The Critique of Mechanism in the Political Philosophy of Herder and German Romanticism Chapter Two: The Political Function of Machine Metaphors in Hegel’s Early Writings Mechanism in Religious Practice Chapter Three: The Mechanization of Labor and the Birth of Modern Ethicality in Hegel’s Jena Political Writings Chapter Four: Mechanism and the Problem of Self-Determination in Hegel’s Logic Chapter Five: The Modern State as Absolute Mechanism: Hegel’s Logical Insight into the Relation of Civil Society and the State Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
