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Paper doi abstract bibtex Ever since Lukács, or at least since Joachim Ritter's famous treatise on the subject, we have known beyond all doubt that Hegel's political philosophy is inextricably bound up with the French Revolution. However, it is still a matter of controversy how and in what manner Hegel incorporated the course and the achievements of revolutionary action into his thinking on political theory and made them the point of reference for his own philosophy. Joachim Ritter believes Hegel was convinced that the French Revolution signified the historical breakthrough of that principle of the formal right of freedom by virtue of which subjects are free, via their division from one another, to realize their being- as-self.' Jürgen Habermas has supplemented this somewhat affirmative interpretation by putting forward the critical thesis that Hegel was so quick to raise the revolutionary process of the assertion of abstract law to the heights of an objective process of world history because he wished to avoid creating a hazardous relation between his own philosophy and revolutionary praxis. And finally, Andreas Wildt has countered both interpretations with the provocative thesis that, in his lifelong tussle with the French Revolution, Hegel was actually not concerned with the realization of an abstract right of freedom, but with the historical conditions that made possible the assertion of such relations of solidarity as could not be precisely laid down in a legal code.
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abstract = {Ever since Lukács, or at least since Joachim Ritter's famous treatise on the subject, we have known beyond all doubt that Hegel's political philosophy is inextricably bound up with the French Revolution. However, it is still a matter of controversy how and in what manner Hegel incorporated the course and the achievements of revolutionary action into his thinking on political theory and made them the point of reference for his own philosophy. Joachim Ritter believes Hegel was convinced that the French Revolution signified the historical breakthrough of that principle of the formal right of freedom by virtue of which subjects are free, via their division from one another, to realize their being- as-self.' Jürgen Habermas has supplemented this somewhat affirmative interpretation by putting forward the critical thesis that Hegel was so quick to raise the revolutionary process of the assertion of abstract law to the heights of an objective process of world history because he wished to avoid creating a hazardous relation between his own philosophy and revolutionary praxis. And finally, Andreas Wildt has countered both interpretations with the provocative thesis that, in his lifelong tussle with the French Revolution, Hegel was actually not concerned with the realization of an abstract right of freedom, but with the historical conditions that made possible the assertion of such relations of solidarity as could not be precisely laid down in a legal code.},
language = {en},
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journal = {Philosophy \& Social Criticism},
author = {Honneth, Axel},
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