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.
