Douglas Moggach

The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first comprehensive study in English of Bruno Bauer, a leading Hegelian philosopher of the 1840s. Inspired by the philosophy of Hegel, Bauer led an intellectual revolution that influenced Marx and shaped modern secular humanism. In the process he offered a republican alternative to liberalism and socialism, criticized religious and political conservatism and set out the terms for the development of modern mass and industrial society. Based on in-depth archival research this book traces the emergence of republican political thought in Germany before the revolutions of 1848. Professor Moggach examines Bauer's republicanism and his concept of infinite self-consciousness. He also explores the more disturbing aspects of Bauer's critique of modernity, such as his anti-Semitism. As little else is available on Bauer even in German this book will be eagerly sought out by professionals in political philosophy, political science, and intellectual history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780521039246
• ISBN-10: 052103924X
• Artikelnr.: 23002472

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: 'the friend of freedom'
Part I. Foundations: Aesthetics, Ethics and Republicanism: 1. 'The idea is life': Bauer's aesthetics and political thought
2. 'Free means ethical': idealism, history and critical theory
Part II. Judging the Old Order: 3. 'The other of itself': the critique of the religious consciousness
4. 'Revolution and the Republic': the state and self-consciousness
Part III. The Emancipatory Project: 5. 'Only the ought is true': Hegel, self-consciousness and revolution
6. 'To the people belongs the future': universal right and history
Part IV. Judging the Revolutionary Movement: 7. 'The fire of criticism': revolutionary dynamics, 1843-8
8. 'The republic of self-consciousness': revolutionary politics in 1848
Epilogue: after the revolution: the conclusion of the Christian-Germanic age
Appendix: Bruno Bauer, 'On the Principles of the Beautiful' (1829)
Notes
Bibliography
Index.