Freedom and Modernity

Richard Dien Winfield is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Overcoming Foundations; The Just Economy; and Reason and Justice.

"Winfield's masterful neo-Hegelian presentation of the problems of freedom and justice and the incoherence of human or 'natural' rights, together with his analysis of the role of modern economic institutions in creating structures for justice and human flourishing, provide a fascinating new alternative to the conventional view of these problems, whether from the standpoint of liberal democratic capitalism or Marxism. Winfield addresses and redresses some of the most compelling criticisms of individuality, freedom, and the commitment to rationality in modernism as advanced by the most sophisticated post-modernist critics, including Derrida and Foucault." — George R. Lucas, Jr., Clemson University

• Introduction A Note on the Text Part I: Autonomous Reason 1. The Method of Autonomous Reason2. The Ordeal of Self-Critical Critical Philosophy: Reflections on Husserl and Wittgenstein3. Is Systematic Logic a Transcendental Ontology?4. Conceiving Reality without Foundations5. On Individuality Part II: Autonomous Action 6. Morality without Community7. The Injustice of Human Rights8. Freedom as Interaction: Hegel's Resolution to the Dilemma of Liberal Theory9. Hegel and the Legitimation of Modernity10. The Dilemma of Labor11. The Young Hegel and the Dialectic of Social Production12. The Logic of Marx's Capital13. The Social Determination of the Labor Process from Hegel to Marx14. Hegel's Challenge to the Modern Economy15. Rethinking Politics: Carl Schmitt versus Hegel16. Political Freedom and Territorial Rights Index