Finding Freedom

Hegel's Philosophy and the Emancipation of Women

Par Sara Z. Macdonald
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Livre numérique (PDF) : 9780773574793, Mai 2008
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Table des matières

Table des matières

Acknowledgments xi
1 A Hegelian Contradiction: Seeking a Poetic Solution 3
2 Sophocles’ Antigone: A Tragic Imbalance 19
3 Hegel’s Antigone: Ethical Life in the Phenomenology of Spirit 41
4 The Philosophy of Right: A New Ethical Order 74
5 A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Antigone Reformed 98
6 Conclusion: Hegel in the Contemporary World 133
Bibliography 139
Index 145

Combining a detailed study of Hegel's political philosophy with close readings of two important literary works that help clarify his thought, MacDonald traces the historical development of an enduring link between personal lives and stable political communities. While Sophocles' Antigone highlights the tension in states that deny the interests of their citizens, MacDonald shows that Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream offers an alternative image, one that sees freedom for all as essential to an ethical family and state and is consistent with Hegel's thought in both the Phenomenology of Spirit and The Philosophy of Right.