Nathaniel Boyd is Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of York, UK.

Much of Hegel’s theory of the modern state grew out of his reaction to the literature of German public law. These sources are largely unknown to us today. It is no small service of Boyd’s work to have resurrected them and to have shown their relevance for Hegel’s political thought. Hegel and German Public Law marks a milestone in the study of Hegel.

• Introduction1. Imperial Public Law in Statu Cadentis Imperii: Johann Jacob Moser2. The Empire as the Impersonal Nexus of the Composite State: Johann Stephan Pütter3. The Twilight of German Imperial Public Law: Johann Christian von Majer4. The Empire of Ethical Life: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelConclusion Bibliography Index

Nathaniel Boyd is Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of York, UK.

Much of Hegel’s theory of the modern state grew out of his reaction to the literature of German public law. These sources are largely unknown to us today. It is no small service of Boyd’s work to have resurrected them and to have shown their relevance for Hegel’s political thought. Hegel and German Public Law marks a milestone in the study of Hegel.

• Introduction1. Imperial Public Law in Statu Cadentis Imperii: Johann Jacob Moser2. The Empire as the Impersonal Nexus of the Composite State: Johann Stephan Pütter3. The Twilight of German Imperial Public Law: Johann Christian von Majer4. The Empire of Ethical Life: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelConclusion Bibliography Index

Nathaniel Boyd is Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of York, UK.

Much of Hegel’s theory of the modern state grew out of his reaction to the literature of German public law. These sources are largely unknown to us today. It is no small service of Boyd’s work to have resurrected them and to have shown their relevance for Hegel’s political thought. Hegel and German Public Law marks a milestone in the study of Hegel.

• Introduction1. Imperial Public Law in Statu Cadentis Imperii: Johann Jacob Moser2. The Empire as the Impersonal Nexus of the Composite State: Johann Stephan Pütter3. The Twilight of German Imperial Public Law: Johann Christian von Majer4. The Empire of Ethical Life: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelConclusion Bibliography Index