Hegels World Revolutions Bourke Richard
Hegels World Revolutions Bourke Richard A new account of the relevance of Hegel's ideas for today's world, countering the postwar anti-Hegel "insurgency"G.W.F. Ever since, his work has shaped debates…
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Hegels World Revolutions Bourke Richard
A new account of the relevance of Hegel's ideas for today's world, countering the postwar anti-Hegel "insurgency"G.W.F. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as religion, aesthetics and metaphysics. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age.
In Hegel's World Revolutions, Richard Bourke returns to Hegel's original arguments, clarifying their true import and illuminating their relevance to contemporary society. His most lasting contribution was his vision of history and politics. Bourke shows that central to Hegel's thought was his anatomy of the modern world.
On the one hand he claimed that modernity was a deliverance from subjection, but on the other he saw it as having unleashed the spirit of critical reflection. Bourke explores this predicament in terms of a series of world revolutions that Hegel believed had ushered in