Infinite Autonomy

The Divided Individual in the Political Thought of G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche

AvJeffrey Church

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche are often considered the philosophical antipodes of the nineteenth century. In Infinite Autonomy, Jeffrey Church draws on the thinking of both Hegel and Nietzsche to assess the modern Western defense of individuality—to consider whether we were right to reject the ancient model of community above the individual. The theoretical and practical implications of this project are important, because the proper defense of the individual allows for the survival of modern liberal institutions in the face of non-Western critics who value communal goals at the expense of individual rights. By drawing from Hegelian and Nietzschean ideas of autonomy, Church finds a third way for the individual—what he calls the “historical individual,” which goes beyond the disagreements of the ancients and the moderns while nonetheless incorporating their distinctive contributions.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-01-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780271050751

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Jeffrey Church is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston.

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“Hegel and Nietzsche have commonly been viewed as philosophical opposites. In his important new book, Jeffrey Church convincingly shows that these two thinkers in fact share a common conception of the ‘historical individual’ that successfully reconciles individuality and community and serves as a powerful rejoinder to critiques of individuality in our own time. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in nineteenth-century political philosophy or a sophisticated defense of the central liberal value of individuality.”—Paul Franco, Bowdoin College

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ContentsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1Three Concepts of Individuality1.1The Natural Individual1.2The Formal Individual1.3Rousseau and the Historical Individual2Hegel’s Defense of Individuality2.1The Distinctively Human Subject and the Good Life2.2The Autonomy of the Laboring Subject2.3The “Infinite Worth” of Individual Character3Hegel on the Ethical Individual3.1The Origin of Community3.2The Nature of Community3.3Politics as the Highest Ethical Community4Hegel on the Modern Political Individual4.1The Ancient Versus the Modern State4.2Expansion of Desire in Modern Commercial Society4.3Estates and Corporations as Ethical-Political Communities5Nietzsche’s Defense of Individuality5.1The Problem of Individuation in Nietzsche5.2The Will to Power and the Development of the Distinctively Human5.3Individuality as a Narrative Unity6Nietzsche on the Redemptive Individual6.1The Tension in the Bow and Human Community6.2Silenus’ Truth6.3The Aesthetic Justification of Existence6.4The Individual’s Redemption6.5Eros and Eris of Community7Nietzsche on the Antipolitical Individual7.1Historical Development of State and Culture in Modernity7.2On the Nature and Function of the Modern State7.3The Possibilities of Modern CultureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex