The Interface of the Universal: On Hegel’s Concept of the Police
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https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1901101KKeywords:
G. W. F. Hegel, J. G. Fichte, political philosophy, social philosophy, political economy, civil society, police, welfare state, corporationAbstract
The article provides a tentative reading of Hegel’s police as a concept that constitutes a crucial test for the rationality of Hegel’s state and that actually played a very important role in the formation of his model of rationality. It starts by considering some significant changes in Hegel’s approach to the subject in the Jena period, especially in reference to Fichte and Spinoza; then, it presents Hegel’s conception of the police as the interface of the universal in his mature political philosophy, together with his treatment of the disturbing problem of poverty and the rabble; and to conclude, it adds some general remarks on Hegel’s police, then and now.
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Kervégan, Jean-François (2007), L’effectif et le rationnel. Hegel et l’esprit objectif, Paris: Vrin.
Neocleous, Mark (2000), The Fabrication of Social Order. A Critical Theory of Police Power, London, Sterling: Pluto Press.
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Ross, Nathan (2008), On Mechanism in Hegel’s Social and Political Philosophy, New York, London: Routledge.
Ruda, Frank (2011), Hegel’s Rabble. An Investigation into Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, London: Continuum.
Schmidt am Busch, Hans-Christoph (ed.) (2016), Die Philosophie des Marktes: The Philosophy of the Market, Hamburg: Felix Meiner.
Smith, Adam (1896), Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms, Reported by a Student in 1763, E. Cannan (ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Spinoza, Baruch (2002), Complete Works, M. L. Morgan (ed.), S. Shirely (trans.), Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing.
Steuart, James (1767), An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy, London: Millar & Cadell.
Varty, John (1997), “Civic or Commercial? Adam Ferguson’s Concept of Civil Society”, Democratizaton 4(1): 29−48.
Vieweg, Klaus (2018), “Das ‘erste System der Freiheit’ und die ‘Vernichtung aller Freiheit’: Zu Hegels kritischen Einwendungen gegen Fichtes Freiheitsverständnis”, Fichte-Studien 45: 181–199.
–. (2012), Das Denken der Freiheit. Hegels Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, München: Wilhelm Fink.
Waszek, Norbert (1988), The Scottish Enlightenment and Hegel’s Account of “Civil Society”, Dodrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer.
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09.03.2019
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Kobe, Z. (2019) “The Interface of the Universal: On Hegel’s Concept of the Police”, Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society. Belgrade, Serbia, 30(1), pp. 101–121. doi: 10.2298/FID1901101K.
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